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Director
Sinéad O'Brien
Category
Documentary
Blood Fruit takes us back to the height of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1984 when Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell 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. Sinead O’Brien reconstructs the story of their struggle, interviewing the strikers, their employers and their admirers (Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jesse Jackson and Nelson Mandela) and reminding us that ordinary people can, with determination and integrity, achieve extraordinary results. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn
80 minutes, Ireland, 2014, Colour
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: CLERKS 18.20
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 1) 12.50 12.50
CROSSING 13.00, 18.10
HEART OF AN OAK 13.10
LA CHIMERA 15.45
SHAYDA 15.30, 20.30
SLEEP 13.40
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 20.50
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 18.30
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20.40
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