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BANEL & ADAMA
Ramata-Toulaye SY France Senegal Mali 2023 Pulaar with English subtitles 87 min
29 JULY 19:00 SUNCOAST 1 1 30 30 JULY 19:30 SUNCOAST 6 North of Senegal small remote village today Banel and Adama are fiercely in
in
love Longing for a a a a a a a a a home of their their own they have decided to live apart from their their families and that Adama won’t accept his his blood duty as future chief When Adama informs the village council of his his intention the whole community is is disrupted The rain that’s supposed to come doesn’t come Banel and Adama will learn that where they live there is no room for passions let alone chaos Dasru and Vaano lead an an an an an anonymous life as as migrant labourers on on on a a a a a a a a a a a a Mumbai construc- tion site with their infant daughter Joram A brutal turn of events compels Dasru to cradle Joram into a a a a a a a a sling and flee for for for the distant forests he he had once run away from for for for answers and survival Soon he has Mumbai cop Ratnakar in
hot pursuit Torn between duty systemic victimisation and the gradual realisation of how he he is is is probably just a a a a a a a a helpless outsider to the inner machinations of “development at at at any cost” Ratnakar finds himself shifting from pursuer to witness in
in
in
a a a a a brutal endgame that seems like it it may grind him him to dust like it must have thousands before him him After surviving a a a a a a a a a a a nearly fatal car wreck and in
in
a a a a a a a a a a a moment of revelation a a a a a a a a a a a guilt-ridden Zahira decides to to to to travel across the country to to to to finally come out to to to to her religious family in
in
order to to to to unburden herself JORAM
Devashish Makhija India 2023 Hindi with English subtitles 134 min
22 JULY 19:45 SUNCOAST 6 28 JULY 20:00 SUNCOAST 6 LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT IT
Khalid Eljelailati South Africa 2023 English 90 min
22 JULY 12:00 SUNCOAST 7 29 JULY 19:15 SUNCOAST 8 44TH DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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