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Encounters announces full 2016 line-up --
Fri, 13 May 2016 10:36
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Two internationally acclaimed documentary filmmakers are to screen their latest works in South Africa for the first time next month at Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore s search for a better life in Where to Invade Next and German veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog s ride through the online jungle Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, will premiere at the 18th Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, taking place from 2 to 12 June 2016 in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
The line-up includes the world premieres of some ground-breaking and politically relevant South African documentaries said Darryl Els newly appointed festival director, plus several new South African voices, including a number of compelling debuts.
The line-up is as follows:
Soweto the Times Of Wrath, a film by a group of young Sowetan filmmakers made up of Siphamandla Bongwana, Jerry Obakeng Gaegane, Stanford Gibson, Nduzo Shandu, Asanda Kupa and Gontse More, will open the festival. The film concentrates on those excluded from the so-called South African dream 20 years into democracy. Poignant snapshots are captured by the directors, supported by French JBA Productions, depicting a country wearied by endemic corruption with frustrated activists (young and old) continuing the struggle for greater equality.
Precious Metal, a UK/SA short by Isis Thompson, takes another look at the Marikana massacre only this time focusing on the women of the Wonderkop settlement. Theirs is a struggle against forgetting the tragedy and a demand for justice, despite continuing violence that ensues between rival unions and Lonmin. Other local shorts to look out for include The Silent Form, Simon Wood s film that grapples with the essence of the artist Dylan Lewis and his work, and Roger Horn s beautifully crafted These Objects Those Memories that focuses on the mementos that migr s carry with them.
Action Kommandt: The Untold Story of the Revolutionary Fighter Ashley Kriel Nadine Cloete s debut feature exposes the story of anti-apartheid student activist Ashley Kriel. This is the kind of documentary which we need in South Africa, said Els. It is one which makes us confront our past making the voices and the actions of those who fought against apartheid visible to us. Recently the Hawks have reopened Kriel s case.
Alison is Uga Carlini s hybrid feature documentary on Alison Botha, a deeply personal and emotional story of triumph and survival.
International and local favourites
A number of internationally acclaimed portraits and documentaries which reflect on the challenging times in which we live will be shown in South Africa for the first time at the festival:
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, directed by renowned Afro American writer Rita Coburn Whack together with Bob Hercules, pieces together the life of prejudice and oppression that made the seminal American author of Know Why The Caged Bird Sings the great, inspirational author whose name defies categorisation.
Jihan El-Tahri s revealing profile of Nasser offers a rare insight into the social justice agenda of an Egyptian president whose revolution and the Suez Crisis defied the West. The film features candid interviews with revolutionary Free Soldiers, the Muslim Brotherhood and other political groups.
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures sees directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato trace the controversial artist from his middle-class, small-town upbringing to his success in the 1980s New York art world, until his death in 1989 from Aids-related illness. The documentary follows both the pictures and the man, enriched by interviews with curators, celebrities, models, lovers and family from archival audio.
Shadow World is based on former South African ANC MP Andrew Feinstein s acclaimed book on the global arms trade. Director Johan Grimonprez takes audiences deep into the murky world of illicit deals, corrupt governments and arms dealers worldwide.
Requiem for an American Dream, said to be the last full-length interview by one of the world s most important intellectuals. Noam Chomsky gives a definitive and thought-provoking account of global inequality and how wealth and power has come to rest in the hands of the select few.
A Syrian Love Story is director Sean McAllister s Bergmanesque portrait of love against a tumultuous political backdrop. With thousands fleeing Syria towards Europe, it is easy to relegate refugees stories to sensational newspaper headlines and political banners. This is the story of one man, the people he loves and the country that hates him.
Evocative films that focus on the plight of children will also be screened:
Walking In My Shoes profiles the stories of Siphilele who trudges 15km to school and Nompilo who has to walk two hours home from school and must still fetch 50 litres of water from the communal tap. An informative film on the lack of transport facing rural learners in South Africa.
Train to Adulthood centres on Budapest Railway, a Communist relic that survives and thrives offering more than 500 children a refuge from the poverty of their capitalist reality. The award-winning documentary presents a coming-of-age saga raising the question of what is childhood?
In addition, those who love dance and music will be offered a rare glimpse into different artistic world s from as far as Cuba in Horizontes - soloists at the Ballet Nacionale de Cuba to black street dancers in Sweden in Martha & Nikki, and secret (and illegal) desert dance parties in Raving Iran.
Musical diversity is further explored in A Magical Substance Flows into Me on a spiritual journey of the Israeli/Palestinian territories. Sonita profiles an outspoken female rapper from Afghanista
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