Amakula Screenings for 8th February 2011
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South Africa
Rough Aunties
Country:United Kingdom, South Africa
Director:Kim Longinotto
Year:
2008
Duration:
103
Summary:
A remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.
Sarah and Omelga
Country:Malaysia, South Africa
Director:Tan Chui Mui
Year:
2010
Duration:
30
Summary:
Coming from a country with strong racial divisions, the Malaysian filmmaker inquires into the new racial ‘equality’ in South-Africa through the stories of a black and white filmmaker.
No woman Born
Country:Malaysia, South Africa
Director:Tan Chui Mui
Year:
2010
Duration:
20
Summary:
, (Malayasia/South/Africa, 2010, 20 min)Tan Chui Mui traveled to South-Africa where she made a short science fiction using the futuristic architecture of the football stadium and its laborers as characters.
Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here
Country:South Africa
Director:Behki Sibiya
Year:
2009
Duration:
14
Summary:
A young girl is forced to reconcile images of Santa Claus with her life in South Africa while her grandmother must ruefully observe and assist in a tender breaking of dreams.
The Abyss Boys
Country:South Africa
Director:Jan Hendrik Beetge
Year:
2010
Duration:
26
Summary:
Wanting to save his young brother from a violent gangster Jimmy devises a plan for a new life.
Gugu and Andile
Country:South Africa
Director:Minky Schlesinger
Year:
2009
Duration:
98
Summary:
The sharply divided tribal lines are what challenge a sixteen year old Zulu girl (Gugu) and an eighteen year old Xhosa boy (Andile) to cross forbidden social borders.
Sea Point Days
Country:South Africa
Director:Francois Verster
Year:
2009
Duration:
93
Summary:
This documentary captures a moment of transition in South African history through the transformation of the Sea Point promenade in Cape Town.
Motherland
Country:South Africa
Director:Owen Alik Shahadah
Year:
2010
Duration:
120
Summary:
An epic documentary about the African continent from Ancient Kemet to the present. An overview of African history and contemporary issues of the African people.
White Wedding
Country:South Africa
Director:Jann Turner
Program:African Panorama
Year:
2008
Duration:
93
Summary:
Elvis is getting ready to have an 1800 km journey away from Johannesburg, for the big wedding with his fiancé, Ayanda but he misses the bus…
Jerusalema
Country:South Africa
Director:Ralph Ziman
Year:
2009
Duration:
118
Summary:
This film recounts a young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.
