Two films about dissidents.
A portrait of a strong woman and a poetic reaction to a situation.

FRI 24 APRIL, 13:00 - SAT 25 APRIL, 16:00 - SPHINX - 54’

Bernadette

Duncan Campbell, UK, 2008, DigiBeta, 38'

Bernadette Devlin, one of the key figures in Northern Ireland’s republican and civil rights movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s, was known for her temperament. She slapped the Home Secretary when he forbid her to address the parliament after Bloody Sunday…

Purgatorio

Lav Diaz, PH, 2008, BetaSP, 16'

Purgatorio is a critique on the disappearances of people with dissident voices in the Phillipines. A triptych of a man and a woman lost, a ritual dance by the Aeta tribe and the exhumation of a skeleton.