Antigone
Sophie Deraspe
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)
- Amsterdam
- Wed 10 Feb at 19:30 in Kriterion*
- Nijmegen
- Wed 10 Feb at 19:30 in LUX
- Delft
- Thu 11 Feb at 19:30 in Lumen
- Den Haag
- Sun 14 Feb at 15:00 in Filmhuis Den Haag*
- Wageningen
- Sun 16 Feb at 20:00 in Movie W*
- Groningen
- Tue 16 Feb at 20:30 in Vera Zienema*
- Deventer
- Mon 22 Feb at 19:00 in Mimik
- Maastricht
- Mon 22 Feb at 19:30 in Lumière*
- Enschede
- Mon 22 Feb at 19:30 in Concordia
- Arnhem
- Wed 24 Feb at 19:00 in Focus Filmtheater*
- Amersfoort
- in De Lieve Vrouw*
- Utrecht
- in Louis Hartlooper Complex
- Leiden
- in Kijkhuis*
- Alkmaar
- in Filmhuis Alkmaar
- Apeldoorn
- in Gigant
- Hilversum
- in Filmtheater Hilversum
- Middelburg
- in Cinema Middelburg*