Antigone
Sophie Deraspe
Because of the measures taken against the coronavirus most of the screenings will be cancelled. Contact your own theatre about the cancellation of your tickets. We are looking for a possibility to screen the movie on a later date.
Loosely based on Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Antigone tells the story of Antigone, who fled to Canada with her family for a better life but instead faces injustice.
Antigone’s new home in Montreal turns out not to be the home she hoped it to be. When she is a teenager she sees how her brother Polynice gets caught up in criminality. And when the police turns up when they are playing a game in the streets, her other brother Étéocle gets shot when he tries to protect Polynice from being unjustly arrested. Polynice is arrested and faces deportation because he has attacked a policeman.
Antigone (beautifully portrayed by debutant Nahéma Ricci) thinks she can save Polynice by sacrificing herself. However, the police don’t fall for their game and Antigone and her family see how immigrants don’t have the same rights.
Credits
- Director
- Sophie Deraspe
- Type
- Fiction
- Country
- Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Spoken Language
- French
Theatres, dates and times (updated when more dates are announced)
- Den Haag
- Sun 11 Apr at 15:00 in Filmhuis Den Haag*
- Leiden
- Mon 12 Apr at 19:00 in Kijkhuis*
- Enschede
- Mon 12 Apr at 19:30 in Concordia
- Amersfoort
- Mon 12 Apr at 20:15 in De Lieve Vrouw*
- Utrecht
- Mon 12 Apr in Louis Hartlooper Complex
- Alkmaar
- Tue 13 Apr at 19:00 in Filmhuis Alkmaar
- Apeldoorn
- Tue 13 Apr at 20:00 in Gigant
- Middelburg
- Tue 13 Apr at 20:00 in Cinema Middelburg*
- Hilversum
- Tue 13 Apr at 20:15 in Filmtheater Hilversum
- Groningen
- Tue 13 Apr at 20:30 in Vera Zienema*
- Amsterdam
- Wed 14 Apr at 19:30 in Kriterion*
- Nijmegen
- Wed 14 Apr at 19:30 in LUX
- Delft
- Thu 15 Apr at 19:30 in Lumen
- Maastricht
- Mon 19 Apr at 19:30 in Lumière*
- Deventer
- Mon 26 Apr at 20:00 in Mimik
- Arnhem
- Wed 28 Apr at 19:00 in Focus Filmtheater*
- Wageningen
- in Movie W*