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Sinead O'Brien
Credits
Producer: Noel Pearson Writer: Sinead O'Brien.
Category
Documentary
Feature-documentary award winner and crowd pleaser at the Galway Film Fleadh, Blood Fruit takes us to 1984, the height of apartheid in South Africa. Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell two Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid struggle. She and ten other supporters were suspended and a strike ensued. The 11 knew little about apartheid and assumed they’d be back to work before long but the arrival on the picket line of activist Nimrod Sejake changed everything, setting the strikers on a path they could never have expected. Notes by Ross Whitaker.
80 minutes, Ireland, 2014, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: GAEILGE ABÚ! (PROGRAMME 1) 13.10
BÁITE 18.00
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 15.35
IRISH FOCUS: A VISUAL STORM 18.30
SIRĀT 12.55
SOUND OF FALLING 15.20, 20.10
THE BRIDE! 12.55, 20.30
THE SECRET AGENT 17.00, 20.05
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 14.00 (OC)
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