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5 DAY SHELTER - Gala Screening
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Saturday 24 April 9pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Ger Leonard / Ireland/UK (N.I.) / 2009 / 83 minutes | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | Five Day Shelter is a highly visual ensemble drama interweaving the lives of several characters in a contemporary urban setting over five days.
All the characters live untenable existences of quiet desperation. It is only by letting go of the lies they’ve forced themselves to live that they can ultimately find release. They can then connect with the beauty and the poetry to which their numbing routines have made them blind.
Five Day Shelter looks at the interconnectivity of all things in the face of man’s inherent isolation, with themes of human nature and animal instinct, through a language beyond that of words.
These lives are portrayed and betrayed by their fleeting interactions with each other and crucially the animals in their lives. This is a unique serious drama revealing the poetry of the everyday. It is this recognition of, and connection with, the beauty and poetry in and around us that can lift us out of our despair and suffering.
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