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WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARDGregg Araki, France, United States, 2014 19 July 20:30 Musgrave 6;25 July 17:00 NouveauKat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is 17-years-old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve(Eva Green), a beautiful, enigmatic and haunted woman, disappears just as Kat is discoveringand relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionallyrepressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blameher doormat of a father for the loss. As time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with howdeeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, shefinds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denialabout the events surrounding it. African PremiereEnglish, 91 minWHITE GODKornél Mundruczó, Hungary, 2014 19 July 14:30 Suncoast 8;26 July 18:45 Suncoast 8A cautionary allegory of immigration and race relations, where the leading world orderfavouring pedigree dogs, introduces a new regulation putting a severe tax on mixed breeds.Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. Thirteen-year-old Lili fightsdesperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets.Hagen and his pretty master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Hagen joinsa gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound. With little hope inside, thedogs seize an opportunity to escape and revolt against mankind. African PremiereHungarian with English subtitles, 119 minWHITE OUT, BLACK IN (BRANCO SAI, PRETO FICA)Adirley Queirós, Brazil, 2014 24 July 17:15 Suncoast 8;25 July 12:00 ElangeniOn 5 March 1986, in a run-down disco on the outskirts of Brasilia, a group of cops used a drugraid as an excuse to severely beat everyone present in the dive; all of those beaten were black.The policemen were heard shouting: 'White out, black in.' Marquim and Sartana, two victims ofthe event, remember that terrible day; the former lost a leg and the latter remains paralysed.African PremierePortuguese with English subtitles, 93 min36th Durban International Film Festival71