11/11/2009 - 2:30pm

Film: When Ignorance is not Bliss
Country:Lesotho
Director:Silas Moniyatsi
Program:African Panorama
Venues:Green Room
Description:
Letata and his wife Malitsietsi live in an Hiv stricken village in the highlands of Lesotho. Trying to eschew HIV Letata opts to desert his home and his chaste wife.
Jane Gilooly, Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (Lesotho/South Africa, 2009)
This film captures the day to day life in a rural society on the threshold of simultaneous collapse and reinvention in the fight against HIV/Aids in Swaziland.
