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                                                                                                         the British Council, Jo
                                                                                                    in London and Gait Learmont
                                                                                                                                        these films and the four e.tv Clo:
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                                                                                            in Cape Town; the European Union /          first-time directors have passed throug
                     WELCOME TO THE THIRD ENCOUNTERS SOUTH AFRICAN
                                                                                            Conference Workshop and Cultural            the Laboratory six have made films fi
      INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL. We have been heartened by
                                                                                            lnitiative Fund (CWCI), Emmanuelle          e.tv and they and other          Laborato
     the response to the Festival, by both the public and filmmakers, which
                                                                                            Gille in Pretoria; Cinema Nouveau, Nico     candidates have gone on to make the
       makes this Festival glow and grow. ln 1999 we screened z3 titles; in
                                                                                            van der Merwe, for his support of the       own films, elsewhere. e,tv is once aga
          2ooo we screened 3z tifles; this year, out of the phenomenal 3o1-' ..
                                                                                            FestilFd       encouraging audiences by     committed to commissioning fitms fro
       titles sent to us, we present 421 titles for your delectation. This is U
                                                                                            means of our low ticket prices, and his     the Laboratory we thank them for the
         first year that we will travet to fohannesburg and we are testing the
                                                                                            staff in Cape Town and Johannesburg.        support.
                waters with a 'Choice' selection of the Cape Town programme.
                                                                                              Thanks to Tim Atkinson for his              Motty Slingsby     is the Laborato
       Encounters is gaining international     Bestatl, Pule Diphare, Craig    &   Damon    support, he provides the video              coordinator, Peter Eaton the Festiv
     recognition. We have formed an            Foster, lngrid Gavshon, John Hendricks,      machinery and to the Victoria Junction      programmer, Laun Bowman and lacq
     association with the Swiss Festival       Teboho Mahtatsi, Craig Matthew and           Hotel for making all     our guests so      Dolamore coordinated         the Pan
     Visions du Rdel and this year nine        JoElte Chesselet.                            comfortable.                                Discussions. Tania Bester       is tl
     South Africans, among them the four         This is a '[ive' and lively event. ln        Last year, e.tv commissioned  z films     programme designer. We thank the
     r999 Close Encounters       filmmakers,   addition to the filmmakers talking           as   a   result of the Ctose Encounters     one and at[ for their efforts.
     attended this festival, courtesy of Pro   about their films we have organized          Laboratory. We are pteased    to   screen          Nodi Murphy & Steven Markovi
     Helvetia. Five South African films were   many Panel Discussions. Experts,
     screened there,    two of them       in   academics, people in the know and
     competition: Pule Diphare's lG Strijdom   people in the films will be in the                                                                                 't\l\l   (   I
     is Very Very Deod and Lindy Wilson's      cinemas to comment on the films and
     Gugulethu Seven.                          answer any questions you may have
       Last year over       50   fitmmakers    about the issues they raise.
     attended the Festival. This year we        We wish to thank all those that have .
     hope to prove lust as popular... and      made this Third Encounters possible:
     can already name some of our guests.      Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts (5lncit,
     From abroad we welcome Werner             Peter da Rin in Zurich and, in particutar,
     Schweitzer (Switzerland), Jan Heijs       Mirlam Asmal in Cape Town; the Royal
     (Hottand) and Darcus Howe (Britain).      Netherlands Embassy, Hans Glaubitz in
     Among the South Africans are Ctiff        Pretoria    and Holland Film            in
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     Werner Schweitzer                                                                      Do lt
     Wemer SchweiEer made his first film in                                                 Switzerland 2ooo 97min 35mm                   rD      swts
     the mid lo's, al the age of zr, whitst                                                 Dirs: Sabine Gisiger & Marcel Zwingli
     reading sociology at the University of                                                 Prods: Samir & Werner Schweitzer
     Zurich. Typically, it was a co[[aborative                                              Daniele von Arb was 16 years old when
     effoft and potiticat, two principles that                                              he and friends founded the r97o Zurich
     were to characterise his work in the                                                   revoh''!^nary cell listed by the ClA, in   Switzerland 1999 gomin 35mm
     future. As a founder of the Videoladen                                                 its Lt of international terrorist          Dirs: F Bernasconi, C Davi, N Fares,
     co-operative, using video technology,                                                  organisations, under the code name         W George, K Musale, T Thiimena,
     he helped pioneer      a
                          new form of                                                       "Annebiibi." Remarkably, the CIA never     S Werenfels
     montage, a rapid succession of                                                         put hand to the extensive 8mm              Prods: Werner Schweitzer & Samir
     'heterogeneous' images creating a                                                              footage of the group that they     With personal histories as a starti
     subjective, polemic, rap-tike [anguage.                                                        filmed of themselves, here         point and a healthy dose of irot
     Videoladen's best-known fitm                Ventschr specialises   in working   with           intercut with contemporary         seven young fitmmakers exami
     employing this technique was the            young fitmmakers; /DSwrss is a case in             interviews of the group,           concepts of what it means to                I

     documentary Zurich is Burning, aboul        point. "My goal is to make and                     ftiends and family. Daniele,       'Swiss'. The sons and daughters
     the youth movement in that city. ln the     produce fitms with an ingenious                                                       immigrants, ltatians, lndians, Egyptia
     early 9o's, Werner formed Dschoint creative power, an intriguing story with                                                       and Moroccan ,lews among them, ar
     Ventschr Fitmproduction (oint Venture) drama, emotions, and new points of                                                         with the 'cultural baggage' of thr
     with Samir. Together they specialize in     view. I would tike my audience, after                                                 ancestors, they address issues
     producing films for cinema and TV with      the   screening,   to have felt      the                                              immigration, emigration and duty
     three focal points: politics, society and   filmmaker's personal involvement, and                                                 one's family. lnterspersed            wi
     cross-cutture issues; and new forms of      perhaps    also to have         learned                                               interestingly presented statistics on   t
     visual language. ln the last ten years      something new about peopie, society,                                                  state of a 'nation' we see the pictu
     they have produced eight fiction fitms      history and the wortd we are living in."                                              puzzte of a country that is more thi
     and more than twenty documentaries,         We are pleased to wetcome \lerner                                                     iust the home of watches, banks, gor
     most of them reteased in the cinema. lt     Schweitzer as a guest of Erltlrters,                                                  chocolate, fabutous penknives           at
     is   interesting     to note that     in    sponsored by Pro Helvetia. He will                                                    cuckoo clocks.
     Switzerland    a large     number of introduce his productions Do lt and lD                                                       Courtesy of Dschoint Ventschr Films & Pra
                                                                                                                                       Helvetia.
     documentaries are finished   on 35mm Sr,vrss and take part in the Close
     and have a theatrica[ release. Dschoint     Encounters Laboratory as a tutor.
                                                                                                                                        T   Tue 24 7,30pm
                                                                                                                                            Panel: W Schweizer, T Dunne
                                                                                                                                            Mon 30 6pm
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Jan Heijs                                                                                The Making of a                                       Procedure 769
                                                                                         New Empire
Jan Heiis learned   to [ove the cinema at                                                                                                     The Nethertands 1995 8omin 35mn
school. Then, as a political science                                                     The Netherlands 1999 98min 35mm                      Dir: Iaap van Hoewrft
student at university in Amsterdam, he                                                   Dir: los de Putter                                   Prod: lan Heiis
had a job in the box office   ofthe   Dutch                                              Prod: Jan Heils
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Fitmmuseum and watched hundreds of
films. lt was in Bertin, programming for                                                                         Escaped convict,
the famous ArsenaI cinema and helping                                                                            war hero,           media
                                                                                                                                                                                          I
organise the Berlinale section of the                                                                            manager,            mystic
lnternational Forum of Young Cinema,                                                                             visionary   -   Khozh-       Procedure 759 is the bureaucri
that he met Hubert Bals. Bals was the                                                                            Ahmed Koukhaev               euphemism for the death penalty
founder of the then infant Rotterdam                                                                             is the very modern           California, USA. This film focuses
festivat. lt was under his tutetage that                                                                         model of        a   maior    eteven witnesses to the execution
Heils learned "to watch fitms as fitms,       and contains most drama; and because                               Mafia don.                   convicted murderer Robert Atton Har
as cinema and not onty as tools for           I tike to see films about real people.'                            Twenty-five years            Among        the       observers      are       :
other (politicaD purposes; and to             Heiis used De Filmkront as a tool to                               ago in Moscow he             Quentin's former prison warden              ta

appreciate film directors as artists, with    hetp people develop their           film                           founded                      supervises the execution and
all their problems, trying to make what       journalist skitls and now uses lura Film   underground movement that became                     famity of one of Harris' victims.           A

they wanted   to make."                       to help young filmmakers realise their     the cradle of the      Chenchen liberation           present are           a    journalist;   offir
Whitst   stitl a film critlc for        De    dreams, to brlng their films to the        movement. Today, amidst the ruins of                 witnesses, including the current         she

Volkskrant and editor-in-chief for the        international screen for             an    Grozny, he rides         in an armoured              of San Diego; a VIP witness (the            o

monthly De Filmkront, Heiis became a          international audience.                    Mercedes dressed       in   expensive ltatian        person present who is actualty agai
Film Producer making, among other             We are pleased to welcome Jan to Cape      suits.   A     rare                                  death penalty);           a   psychiatrist; i
fitms, Crty tfe. This was a series of rz      Town, courtesy of the             Royal    portrait of one                                      Harris' distant cousin who is a chu
short films by directors such            as   Netherlands Embassy. He wi[[ introduce     of the world's                                       minister from Atabama. All have mi;
Kieslowski, Sen, Klopfenstein, Tan and        screenings of his productiow-- The         most     oowerful                                    and contradictory feetings about
Agresti about their 'home towns'. ln          Moking of a New Empire and l*dure          me/Ya      suave                                     execution. Throughout the film,
t99z he joined Ruud Monster's .lura           769   -and answer questions from the       strategist     -   Noukhaev controls the             vital role the media plays on             pul
Films and has produced a few dozen            audience. He witl also act as a tutor on   flow   ofthe   planet's targest oil reserves.        opinion prompts us to re-examine
films, mostly documentaries "because          the Close Encounters Documentary           Couftesy of Juro Film & Hollond Film.                real costs of extreme retribution.
it's stitt reality that is most gripping      Laboratory.                                                                                     Courtesy of Jura Film & Hollond Film.
                                                                                                                                               T   Wed 25 7.15om
                                                                                                                                                   Panel: J Heiia, D v Zyl Smit
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with Rajiv Ghandi and Robert Mugabe.            7o,ooo people, an island the size of             in the throes of an identity        cris

                                               ln t99z Darcus became The Devil's               Slough with a flag, a Prime Minister and         "The old England of selFconfidenr
                                               Advocate on C4's cult studio debate             a vote at the UN."            He discovers   a   of peopte knowing who they a
                                               show honing his inimitable polemical            nation that cannot feed or clothe itself
                                               style. He scribes a weekly column in            nor pay its debts   -   a country dependent
                                               The New Stotesman.                              on weatthy white outsiders as ever it
                                               We welcome Darcus           to   Cape 1s*n      was in coloniaI times. ln Martinique
Darcus Howe, ex-Btack Panther, son of          where he will introduce his      filnlaub/e     Darct rs shocked - the place is
an Anglican priest, Britain's      teading     ln Paradise, the White Iribe omnibus            supposed to be the Caribbean but it
black radicaI commentator.                     and answer questions afterwards. He        is   looks more like Nice. There the French
He broke with Establishment at age 19,         a   Ctose Encounters Laboratory tutor           government welcomes              him to      a

left Trinidad for London, entered the and is sponsored by the British Council.                 transptanted Europe. lt woutd       be   "une

Middle Tempte, swapped it for                                                                  cotastrophe" the Martinique tetl Darcus,

lournalism. Uncle and mentor, radical Trouble in Paradise                                      to sink to the tevel of desperation and          that's dead... the whole of England
intellectuaI C.L.R. James, inspired UK zoor 53min Video                                        disorder of the other istands. Darcus is         in a flux." He travels the length      a

Darcus   to combine   writing with politicat   Dir: Michael Waldman                            retieved    to  to
                                                                                                              return      Engtand yetbreadth of the country to discot
activism.Abriefspell asassistanteditor Offering the same pointed critique of                   disturbed that the dreams          of why the Engtish don't seem to wz
on the Trinidad trade union paper The his Caribbean homeland as he made of                     independence he nuftured as a young to be English anymore. On the seco
Vanguord was followed as editor of Britain in the series White Tribe, Darcus                   man have not been reatised.           leg of his journey in search of t
British magazine Roce Today.           asks what the former colonies have                                                            white tribe, he desperately seeks t
A Mangrove Nine trialist, Darcus was done with the independence for which                                       UKzooozx5omin English who are proud to be whi
acquitted    of 'rlot and affray'. He    they fought? "l teft the Caribbean as a                                episodes Video       After "4o days and 4o nights"
organised   the zo ooo strong Btack      colony and l've come back to look at in                                Dir: Pau[ Wilmshurst draws the conctusion that otd Engta
Peopte's March of r98r ctaiming official a serious political way for the first time            When Darcus Howe moved to Engtand is dead. His mission for the final                        I

neglect and inefficient policing of the and l've met it as a colony." When his                 from Trinidad 40 years ago, he met of his iourney is clear: to find t
investigation of New Cross fire in which sister tells that a close family fti"-d has           people who were certain of who they "new" Engtand. "What kind of plz

4   black teenagers died.                      been shot,   it   proves   a pretudt*'the       werld       what it meant to be English.         will   England become in the next
His UK broadcasting career [aunched     in     tales of viotence and racial division that      Today, as Scottand and Wales seek            a   years? Wi[[ there be anything left    t]
t982on Channel 4'sBlockonBlack.He he encounters. Darcus'next stop is                           semi-detached relationship from                  feets English?"
produced and presentedC{s Bandung Antigua that he ctaims is independent                        Engtand and        with Europe      [ooming      Courtesy of Diverse Productions, Channet
                                                                                                                                                & the British Council.
File, pulting no punches in interviews by name            onty.     "lmagine    a   place of   ever nearer, Darcus discovers a people
                                                                                               CT   Wed 25 8.15pm
                                                                                                    lntro and Q&A - D Howe
                                                                                                    lvlon 30 6pm
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Cliff Bestall                               Cage of Dreams                                   Craig & Damon Foster                     The Great Dance
                   Cliff Bestall must       South Africa zoor 44min Video                                                             South Africa zooo 78min 35mm
                   be one of South          Dir: Clifford Bestatl                                                                     Dirs: Craig & Damon Foster
                   Africa's
                   prolific   fi[mmakers                           ln   Cape     Town's
                   having made over                                Pollsmoor prison,
                   5o   documentaries                              powerfutty   -   $rutal
                   in the past 20                                  gangs      krlr     as
                  years. He has won                        the Numbers reign                 The Foster brothers are a formidable
                  many international       supreme. ln a groundbreaking aci                  team of mutti-award winning              Debuted as      a   work in progress
awards  for his work both as a             towards a peaceful change in the                  fi[mmakers. Though born and raised in    Encounters 1999,     we are pleased
cinematographer and a director. An         system    the   prison's first black chief        Cape Town both have extensive screen the compteted multi-awz
innovative filmmaker, Cliff avoids the     warden, Johnny .lansen, opens the door            technicaI and creative experience winning feature. The San are wic
classic mode of 'obf ective' fitming,      to a film crew. They document conflict            gained from the film industry in acknowledged to be the otd
using a range of perspectives and          resolution workshops and the inmates              England and America. Their passion for inhabitants of southern Africa with
often striking contradictions that of Cell r9r, where the crudely tattooeo                   the outdoors, the coast and ancient unbroken link to their ancestors v
encourages the exploration of the muttiple murderers, rapists and                            desert landscapes, drew them to the have lived in the same region for o
subtle textures of the truth. ln g99, at robbers share cramped quarters.                     Kalahari and the opportunity to have 30 ooo years. The film follows a grr
the first Encounters Documentary Plotting the slow change of heart in the                    Africans   tell                 the of lXo San in the central Kalah
                                                                                                                stories through
Festival, we screened his Nelson top echeton of the Numbers' gang                            medium     of                   and focusing on the unique relations
                                                                                                             non-fiction television
Rolihlala Mandelo     - on intimote        members leads       to surprising   glimpses      cinema. Their technical abilities between their [ifestyle, the land ;
portroit and he tutored on the Ctose of hardened souts opening to                            enabted them to develop the special the animals they hunt. Hunting
Encounters Laboratory. He atso shot introspection.                                           cameras required for the complicated fundamental to their culture and
the award-winning Close Encounters                                                           film sequences and amazing "action" "the chasing hunt" the San must "ti
documentary lG Strijdom is Very Very Atso scrceningt Special Assignment,s                    sequences that has made The Greot over" the anima['s mind in this anci
Dead,     for Pule Diphare. We are 'lnside Out,, directed by A"telise                        Danc' the winner of over 20 battte of human-animal endurar
pteased to welcome him back with the Burgess, is a disturbing foltowY: She                   intefuionat awards including Best This is the first time that anyone                I

groundbreaking Cage of Dreams, the concentrates on ex-inmate and 2g!                         Picture at Wildscreen zooo (Golden photographed, filmed and documen
first fitm shot in Potlsmoor Prison, and boss Mogamat Benlamin and his                       Panda); the z4th USA lnternational in such detail the ancient rites wh
as a tutor on the Close Encounters 'welcome'           home.                                 Wildlife Film Festivol zoot; and Telluride the "hunter becomes the hunted".
Laboratory                                 Both films courtesy of the SABC.
                                                                                             Mountain Film Festival zoot.             Courtesy of SK Pictures & Off the Fence.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 1999
 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS                                                                                 J.G. Striidom is Very, Very Dead
                                                                                                  South Africa 1999 z6min Video
                                                                                                                                                  and the btack children left behit
                                                                                                                                                  motherless, in the surrounding pr
                                                                                                  Dir: Pule Diphare                               urban townships and               far-flu
e.tv, a staunch supporter ofthe Close Encounters Documentary Laboratory, has                      Avonti tooo Silver Aword                        "   homelands.   "
to date, commissioned 6 films for broadcast resulting from the Laboratory. We                     Not ontv is he dead, but he's also lost his
are honoured to screen all of these films at the Festival. courtesv of   . and    t           ,   heacA :nce the comoletion of this film          The Fight
rne prooucers.                                                         V                          ,,r,lotrqrura cottapseo, Irontcalty, on         South Africa 1999 z6min Video
The Ctose Encounters 1999 films were screened to international audiences at                       what was Republic Day and Strijdom's            Dir: Eddie Edwards
the prestigious Swiss documentary film festival, Visions du Rdel in zoot.                         head literalty rolled. So here's a reat         Avanti zooo Silver Award
                                                                                                  piece of history... the Square was once         Andile "One by One" Tshongolo              I

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 2OOO                                                                             the domain of white order and                   literally boxed his way out         of     1

                                                                                                  supremacy, then it turned into a                township. This fitm documents
Changing Gears                                  Overspray                                         commercial center and a haven for black         struggte, his grueling training regi
South Africa zoor z6min Video                   South Africa 2oo1 25min Video                     people who          challenged the              and relationship with trainer Stt
Dir: Mareo Fleiser                              Dirs: Claude Wittwenn & Ebrahim Haiee                      and
                                                                                                  establishment             declared their        Naude,    and his physicatty    demand
Ten years ago, a black woman behind             Graffiti artists, Claude and Eib, record          freedom under the shadow of Afrikaner           job as a groom in Trudy         Houaree
the wheel of a vehicle was unthlnkable.         the struggle for dominance between                pride. This fitm of paradoxes captures the      stable. All in an effort to achieve a bel
While apartheid laws did not prevent            some of the most established graffiti             changing complexion of a city released          life for his family. This punchy little f
these women from driving, politics,             crews in Cape Town. Local tegends                 from the trappings of a truly fallen idot.      follows his preparation for the fight t
economics and cultural traditions were          Fatko, Sky   r    and Wealz r3o prepare for                                                       sets him on the road to success.
obstacles to them taking to the streets.        the   showdown. They            are active        My African Mother
Things have changed in South Africa. The        "writers" -      veterans of the scene who        South Africa 1999 z6min Video                   Lady was a Mashoza
film follows three black women drivers.         make a Iiving through their art. Then             Dir: Cathy Winter                               South Africa 1999 26min Video
Etizabeth, aged 43, is a learner; Miriam,       there are the more anarchic young                 Avonti zooo Winner                              Dir: Nokuthula Mazibuko
a veteran taxi driver of twenty years; and      writers, off the streets, making names            "l   remember   the forbidden back      yard    The abo-mshoza were          expensiv
Portia, iust sixteen, is a skilled go-karter,   for themselves with illegal "bombing."            living quarters into which loften               dressed, insotent, rebetlious hel[-rais
a symbol of a new attitude - her fearless       The film culminates in the "batite": a        .   transgressed. My secret journey from            women of the townships. Five wom
driving skills starkly contrast Elizabeth's     huge hip-hop event that draws young               our tiled and oudourless kitchen into           now     in their early   forties, remini
wheet-gripping nervousness. The film            people from alt walks of life. TF-.signs          the c '-lding smell of suurpap, lifebouy        about their wild youth, and we gait
explores atl that driving is about:             of territoriaI battles are on ev|};ireet          soafu/rd bodies contained in that               fascinating insight into the lsipants
independence, power, status, a job, a           corner, if only you knew how to read          '   room." This personal and evocative film         sub-cutture of the late 7o's and e:
means of getting around, danger, and            them... this energetic funky film wil[   be       is  an eloquent testimony          tothe        8o's. lmages of Jo'burg and Soweto
violence.   lt is a   funny film with loud      your interpreter and guide.                       relationships that developed between            the 7o's, are intercut with 9o's urban
boisterous characters.                                                                            young whites and their "other mothers"          and a vibrant 7o's disco music track.
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I ncluded in this documentary line-up masters of the
      four titles that are narratives - documentary genre
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! films that are scripted and acted. with 6o films to their multi-award                                                          The five                 central
White exptoring and redefining winning credit. ln this realistic fi[m, the                                                       vignettes are a dramatic           South Africa zoor 5omin Video
boundaries is    a popular device of the             is subtty transposed into
                                             'fiction'                                             an                      depiction by the Nenets                  Dir: Teboho Mahlatsi
documentary film genre, these                emotionally identifiable .., o1 lnrth'.                         of the harsh effect Soviet communism                   Episode 11         of this popular a
narratives too blur the line between                                                                                                                                controversial educational youth ser
fact and fiction. Using dramatic-               [: Z:{; lLnx!! ;: :,F
                                             Bruxelles.
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                                                                                              t   i re       fras {yr on their age-old social order.
                                                                                                             This is the world's first feature film in              focuses on the rote history plays
         of actual events or cleverly
recreation
                                             "2"                                                             the Nenets language.                                   understanding present conflir
disguised'mockumentary' footage,             Seven Songs from                                                Courtesy of the Finnish Film Foundotion.               Learners' valuabte skitts                     a

fitmmakers may convince the viewer
                                             the Tundra                                                                                                                       are encouraged in
                                                                                                                                                                    experiences
that what they see is reat.                  Fintand zooo gomin 35mm                                         Shooting Bokkie                                        classroom. Zakes' car-wash busines:
                                             Dirs: Anastasia Lapsui & Markku                                 South Africa 1999 Somin Video                          thriving; he's happy with Maggie z
                                             Lehmuskallio                                                    Dir: Rob de Mezieres                                   his soccer team is doing well wt
La Promesse                                  The visually dazzling contrasts of                              The tines between documentary reality                  Captain Shai convinces him that i
Belgium 1996 gomin 35mm                      horizon-less snowy expanses and lush                            and fiction btur          in this    voyeuristic       the onty one who can bring down
Dirs: Luc & Jean-Piene Dardenne              seasonal vegetation of the Tundra is                            lourney into the underworld. A Cape                    Gibb's drug empire. Vuyani asks
A Cannes fitm festival prize winner and      the setting for this unusual film.                                                   Town film crew                    class to examine the role their o
considered more 'real' than many             Director Lapsui weaves a number of                                                             is hired         and    communities ptayed in the liberat
documentaries, Lo Promesse engages           legends and her own experiences into                                                           told that        the    struggle. Gunman gathers evidet
and convinces with its evocative             stories that document and describe the                                                         assignment is       a   about what really happened to
portrayal of the archetypal struggle         Iife of the Nenets, the nomadic peopte                                                         profile of          a   brother. Sika decides to keep
between father and son, between right        who hunt and fish in the                    Russian                                            iuvenile        Cape    memory of Papa Action alive in sch
and wrong. lgor's father trades in illegal   tundra. The first and seventh songs                         '   Flats gang member. Meanwhile,                      a   by   becoming the Son             of   Papa   z

immigrants. When Amidu, from Burkina         (the ritual sacrifice of a reindeer^to the                      behind the scenes camera captures                      meets Papa Action in prison. A punc
Faso, falls and dies in their employ, lgor   gods and      a   woman singinglb' her                          crevrlrembers hotly debating                    the    we[[-researched docu-drama tl
must reconcile his fathert       imposed                                                                 '   moral issues raised, particularly the                  redefines the medium of educatio
code of deception and silence with his                                                                       dilemma that they wilI be accomptices                  TV. Director Teboho Mahlatsi t
maturing sense of duty to the man's wife                                                                     to a premeditated        murder.                       introduce the screening.
and child. The Dardenne brothers                                                                             Courtesy of Reeltime Pictures.                         Courtesy of SABC & Bomb.
                                       are
   Fr 27 10 30pm / Sun 29 8pm                CT Fri 27 6pm / Tues 31 6pm                                     CT    Thurs 26 6pm with Iotroi rows Heroes             CT        23 815pm
                                                                                                                                                                         t\,,1on
                                                                                                                   Paneli J W Fredencks. S Cullis                        niro and O&A - T lvahlatsi
                                                                                                             Jhb   Sun 5 4pm with Ionrorowb Feroes
Ii:ii!ffifr* :ffi 4tr1 - Encounters South African International ...
The Charcoal People                                                                              Divorce lranian Style
                                                     Brazil   /   USA 7999 67min 35mm                                                                 lran   /   UK 1998 8omin Video
                                                     Dir: Nigel Noble                                                                                 Dirs: Kim Longinitto & Ziba
                                                                                                                                                      Mir-Hosseini
                                                                                                      Dir: Dennis O'Rourke
                                                                                                  )
                                                                                                      Cunnamulla...          the end of the railway
                                                                                                      line   i"   outback Queensland. Christmas
                                                                                                      in lbustr and there\ a lot              more
UK zooo 5omin 35mm                                                                                    going on than the annual lizard race.
Dir: Carol Morley                                                                                     Aboriginal and white Australians live
CaroI Morely returns            to   Manchester                                                       together but apart. Creativity struggtes
where in the early 198o's five years of                                                               against indifference, eccentricity
her life were lost in an alcoholic haze.                                                              against conformity. Daity             dramas
This   is a       brave, unflinching poetic                                                           unfold. Famous country-and-western              Winner of twelve international awa
retrieval        of an era in             which      Photographer Marcos Prado's portraits            singer Stim Dusty is coming to town,        a   this documentary is set in a courtrc
rediscovered friends, acquaintances                  of Brazil's 'charcoal people' inspired           teenage concert pianist is touring with         in centraI Tehran and foltows a num
and enemies speak directly to the                    Academy Award winning director Nigel             her pet cat, and Santa Claus               is   of women who come before a n
camera with frank and unadorned tales                Noble to focus on the plight of several                                                          plussed iudge and                by    turn
of   Carol's drunken,               promiscuous      migrant workers and their famities.                                                              whatever they can         -   reason, argum(
behaviour, her insecurities and random               Their lives are led on the front lines of                                                        charm, outrage, pleas for sympa
acts of kindness. ln Morley's search for             the massive ecological destruction of                                                            patience - to secure their rights. V
her lost self, conflicting memories and              Brazilian forests. Their           meagre        sweltering in his suit. Sometimes sad,          the barest of commentary and fly-
viewpoints weave in and out, revealing               existence comes from making the                  often hilarious, this is an astonishingly       the wall invisibitity the             camera
a portrait of the city, its pop          culture     ovens and stoking them with the wood             honest portrait     of the eccentricities,      turned on the court and lets it tell
and people. An admonition about the                  to     make charcoaI that fuels        the       hypocrisies      and reality of life in an      own story. A fuscinating [ook, by tu
folly of alcohol driven excess and a                 demand of the multinational pry iron
                                                                                                  I   isotar.d communitv.                             unintentionally funny                          i

must-see for anyone who has had one                  and steel industries. BeautifulB;hot,        \   Cot
                                                                                                            lr    of Film Australia.                  heartbreaking, into the workings               c

too many...                                          this evocative portrait            stands                                                        surprisingly outspoken and                  humr
Courtesy of Morley /Cannon                           testimony      to the devastation of   the                                                       lslamic Republic.
Productions & the British Council.                                                                                                                    Courtesy ofVixen Films & the British
                                                     environment and a dislocated people.
                                                                                                                                                      Council.
                                                     Courtesy of Zazen Productions.
                                                            Tue 24 6pm / Tue 31 8Pm                   CT     Tue 31 7 30pm                             CT    Sun 29 5 45pm
Jhb Vor   6   6p- / -h-rs I   8pm              |   16 Jhb   Wed I 8pm                                                                                        Paneli Z Otto-Sallies, R Shabodien
                                                                                                                                                       JhbSat4330pm
                                                     I
The Dealers,                                             Encounters on the                                  FreeDogme                                        Jazz on a Summer's                      D
Artists & Collectors                                     Milky Way
                                                                                                            France zooo 53min Video                          USA 1959   78min 35mm
France   996 Trmin Video                                 Burkina Faso     /   Mati   /   Switzerland zooo   Dir: Roger Narbonne                              Dir: Bert Stern
Dir: Jean-Luc Leon                                   94min Video
                   Enter the rarefied wortd          Dir: Juerg Neuenschwander                              6 years ago, Danish directors Lars von
                   of    France's upper-class                                                               Trier and Thomas Winterberg signed
                   art addicts. The simple           From the savannahs of West Africa to                                               their "vow    of
                   cast of title characters          the alpine meadows of SwitzNi.j -                                                  chastity" and so
                   has one thing in                  simitarities and differences of the bovine                                         began    a    new
                   common: a love for                kind are contrasted and reveated.                  A                               fitm wave known
                   expensive art and the                                                                                                as   Dogme 95.
               wherewithal to either                                                                                                    This     'dogma'
make, sell, or buy it. The ever-roving                                                                                                  establisheda Bert Stern, the last person
camera records glimpses             of   Basquiats                                                                                      new genre of photograph Marilyn Monroe al
of   dubious origin,        to the authentic                                                                                            fiction film with    captures the mood of Americana.
works ofVan Gogh, Dado, Lichtenstein,                                                                                                   particular 'rutes'   the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival wl
Louis Cane, Combas and Kota.                                                                                (no music, no lights) and           a   strong   for two days and nights, music lege
Obscenely weatthy art deaters Burkina Faso breeder meets a                                          Swiss   documentary           touch.     FreeDogme       Duke Ellington, Count                   Ba
Marianne & Pierre Nahon are a dairy furmer and an organic                                           Swiss   examines       this
                                                                                                                             movement from a                 Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jack:
dynamic and dismissive wheeling furmer meets a charismatic vet from the                                     director's point of view. ln different           Chuck Berry Dinah Washington, A
dealing duo who can make or break an                 Sahet. Their        talk is an encounter of the        parts of the world, the participating            O'Day (but to name a fewl) ptay
              in the ftick of a second dimension, between the Third
artist's career                                                                                             filmmakers - Lars von Trier, Wim                 sing for audiences clearly enraptu
chequebook. ln an astonishingty World and a consumer society,                                               Wenders, lean-Marc Barr, Lone Scherfig           Rehearsals and stage performances
candid scene, Pierre informs the providing a clever analysis of the                                         - talk to each other and, Dogme-style,           inter-cut with boats, children plar
metaphysical painter Dado that his art               philosophy of mitk. Part burlesque, part               film themselves... These self-portraits          and folks having fun. Oh, and did
coutd use more work and inspiration. A               poetry the fitm reveals                      oe.ople   are edited according to                   the    mention      the most       uptifting
captivating, breezy romp across an                               and impler$zing
                                                     understanding                                          con{yration ted by the Swedish fitm              extraordinary live soundtrack r
exhausting schedute of dinners, gallery              change for the betterment of                           critic Marie Berthelius. The result is      a    captured on film? This is the best
openings and seriously expensive                     themselves and their herds.                            very special debate between                      documentary        ever made.       Sin
purchases.                                           Courtesy of Container-W &                              committed filmmakers.                            delicious.
                                                     Pro Helvetio
Couftesy of La Sept Arte.                                                                                   Courtesy of Lo Sept Arte.                        Courtesy of the British Council.
                                                            Sat 28 2Pm                                      CT   Fri 28 9,30pm                               CT    Mon 23 8pm /Sat28 9'15pm
     Panel: RWeinek.   SHundt, L   Pollack       ltg
                                                 __-.l                                                                                                       Jhb   Fri 3 8pm / Tue 7 8pm

                                                     I
Life without Death                                Maestro, Maestro!
                                                  Herbert von Karajan
                                                  Switzerland 1999 85min Video
                                                  Dir: Patricia Plattner

Canada zooo 83min Video
Dir: Frank Cole                                                                                                                              lsraeI zoor 53min Video
Fitmed in crisp b&w and with a minimal            Conductor's baton poised to strike and     Denmark zooo 89min Video                        Dir: Duki Dror
monotone voice-over Cole records the              one fist raised vengefulty in the air -    Dir: T6mas Gislason                             Grace,    wit,
                                                                                                                                                          patience and persiste
cross-Sahara lourney that, rr months              this image is now part of the Karajan      l'ti 1937, Danish communist leader, Arne        characterise this engaging portrail
and 8 dead camels later, earned him a             tegend. "He coutd prolong a measure        Munch-Petersen, disappeared          in   the   the director's father and uncles,
ptace in the Guinness Book of Records.            with a simple movement of the arm.         Soviet Union. Sixty years              later,   Darwish brothers. lraqi Jews, they
This 'achievement' was not what drove             His technique was breathtaking."           documents found in the KGB archive              Baghdad in the 5o's for lsrael
him to it. Rather, it was his obsessive           Christa Ludwig recatls. Ten years after    reveal that he died a prisoner. Shot in         established "Fantasia", designi
need to conquer death that made him               the Maestro's death, great artists tetl    Russia, the astonishing tate stretches          manufacturing        and    distribul
put himself in the way of             death.      about their experiences, the rehearsats,   from jeatousty guarded archives to icy          Chanukah menorahs. The story wea
Though a linear journey, there is                 what it was like to work under him as      camps in Siberia, unveiling some of the         memories from lraq and lsrael     -
nothing conventionalty linear about,              an orchestra conductor, his abilities as   unbetievably contrived charges in a             homelands, two [anguages,               1

nor much movement in, this haunting               a stage director and businessman, his      system buitt on the insane logic of             identities, and two enemies. I
film. Typicatty obsessed, in zooo, he             fascination with the latest technology.    Josef Stalin. Gislason's style, graphics        awakens to trace his lraqi roots, (
set off again. His body Was found                 Using archival material of rehearsats,     and split screen, powerful flashes of to face the reclusive silence of
Tokm from Timbuktu. Reluctant         to   die,   ctasses  for conductors and television     archive footage, the marches, the father. As he digs for information ab
Cole instructed that his remains be               interviews, there emerges the m(rait       machinery the adoring masses, give the past, he unearths a long k
conserved at the Cryonics lnstitute in            of a modern individual with marldes        onel;   sense of the despotic power             family secret.     A video diary      t
Detroit awaiting,                 technotogy      to his nature. One of which is the         responsible for the disappearance of            intersperses humorous moments         v

permitting, his rebirth.                          forgotten detail that he was a member      more than 3oo ooo foreigners.                   moving and revealing insights.
Courtesy of Necessory lllusions                                                              Courtesy of th e Dan i sh Bro adcosti n g       Courtesy of Zygote Films.
                                                  of Hitler's Nationa[ Sociatist   Party.
Productions.                                                                                 Corporotion ond the Donish Film lnstitute.
                                                  Courtesy of MC4.
                                                                                             CT   Sun 29 2pm                                 CT    Sat 28 4pm
                                                                                                                                             Jhb   Sat 4 2pm
One Day in September                          Waiting for Jesus,                             Wisconsin Death Trip                                       Dark and Lovely,
                                              the Gospel according                                                                                      Soft and Free
UK zoor gzmin 35mm                                                                           -(        2ooo 76min 35mm
Dir: Kevin Macdonatd
                                              to the Papuans                                 )lr:      James Marsh                                      South Africa    I     Brazll zooo video 5z
Narrated by Michael Douglas                   France    zoor 83min Video                                                                                Dirs: Pauto Alberton & Graeme Reir
                                              Dir: Thomas BalmEs

                                                                                             ',lichael Lesy's Wisconsin Death               Trip,
                                                                                             r   u b   lis   hed in   th   e   ea   rly   t97o's,
                                                                                              rxtaposed the photographs of Charles
Hitter used the 1936 Olympics to                                                             ,an  Schaick, taken in the northern
display his mighty Aryan military. Post-      For over 1oo years,                Christian   ',lidwest in the 189o's, with                          Here's one to debunk the notion of
war Germany's enforced demilitarisation       missionaries of all denominations have         :ontemporary reports from The Badger                   stereotypicaI homo-hairdresser... Zr
ensured a lack of security at what were       sought to convert the tribes of Papua          Srote Bonner. This iournal of Black                    visits salons             in   smal[ town   Sc
bitted as the "Olympics of Peace and          New Guinea. The Hulis are among the            ?iver Falls, Wisconsin, edited                   by    Africa. His 4oookm trip presentl
loy". ln 97z, the   Palestinian Btack         last who stitl hold to their betiefs and       lrglishman Frank Cooper, dryty reports                 different kind of queer, away from
September       took u lsraeli     athletes   traditions of food, dress and inter-tribat     on the daily doings of the settter folk.               mainstream, but stylish stitl, especi
hostage. With live TV cameras pointed    warfare, but not for long. The old                  -his stylish film, based on Lesy's book,               when it comes to hair. The focus is
at the "action", an incredulous world warriors - Ghini, Mahape and Wandipe                   lepicts the immigrants' dementia and                   the gay black man in the townsh
looked on. So did the hostage-takers - dither, almost swayed by the                          reuroses          that are the         nightmarish     The strong presence of the church
via the television set in their room... charismatic (adulterous) preacher and                orecursors of the American Dream.                      music and of tribal traditions make
While we all know how it ended, this their need to convert, to hedge their                   Monochrome photography, pan shots                      interesting characters that inte
non-sensationalist, non-partisan viftual bets against an apocatyptic Christian               and teasing reveals heighten the gothic                harmoniously with their communit
catalogue of the bungled rescue vision. Director Balmds' filmin-'is so                       natu.^ of life on the frontier: suicides,              This film is based on research by
operation and Macdonald's editing intimate that he has obviousty$ned                         aepl;*a      mothers who drown their                   Gay  & Lesbian Archives of South Af
skills lend an edge to our feeling of the trust of the Hulis, a portrait of a                offspring, epidemics, adulteries,                      into the effect of the new constitul
helplessness and dread.                       culture under siege that is often funny,       burials... Fascinating!                                on the tife of gay and lesbian peopl,
Courtesy of Passion Pictures & the British    uttimately sad. Don't miss it.                 Courtesy of the BBC Areno & the British                small towns.
Council.                                                                                     Council.
                                              Cou   rtesy of TBC Production s.                                                                      Courtesy of GALA.

CT    Thurs 26 6pm / Sun 29 6pm               CT Sun 29 8 15pm                                                                                          T   Sat 28 5.3opm
Jhb   Mon 6 Bpm / Thurs I 6pm                                                                                                                  123          lnlro by G Reid

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Facing Death...                               ln the Shadow of a Saint                            Carlos Cardoso -                              Metamorphosis
Facing Life                                                                                       lndependent Spirit
                                              Canada  / UK zooo 54min Video                                                                     South Africa zooo video 5zmin
South Africa zooo 5zmin Video                 Dir: Richard Meech                                  SA       / Mozambique zoor 33min Video        Dir: Luiz DeBarros
Dir: lngrid Gavshon                                                                               lir:      Rehad Desai
                                              What is it like to                                                                                Outrageous! Notorious! Granny            L

                                              be the child of a                                   -ess than a year ago Carlos Cardoso,          variously known as Granny Con, Qut
                                              famous freedom                                      :re ^r Africa's leading investigative         Cobra and the White Queen of Afri
                                              fighter... someone                                      -   -r|!ts,   was assassinated.      An   ran riot in the bars and clubs
                                              who's         p   repared                           :   -:spoken media personality           in                      the 7g7o's u
                                                                                                                                                ,fohannesburg during
                                              to    forsake their                                 '.'ozambique, Cardoso's investigations        her tragic death in a car crash in
                                              family and put                                      -:rged from the expenditure of          tax   late 8o's. Renowned for her spectacL
This is    a haunting portrait of      Duma   their life on the                                   ':.'enue of Maputo City Council to the
Kumalo who, after three years on death        line for             their                          --lti-million dollar fraud committed by
row, was granted a stay of execution 15       politicat         beliefs?
                                                                                                  =rployees of the Banco de Commercial
hours before he was due to be hanged          Ken Wiwa, a
for a crime he did not commit. Ever           London based
since he has struggted to make sense          journatist, returns
of life after near                            to   Nigeria to give
death, for as he                              his late      father,
says:          "   facing                     activist Ken Saro-Wiwa,    a proper
death is hard, but                            buriat. The journey is complicated by                                                             costumes, heavy makeup and a retir
facing tife after facing death is harder."    the people's expectations of their                                                                of young male admirers, hers was     a
A charismatic 'wounded healer', Duma          hero's son and the fact that Ken                                                                  lived on the edge. She openly def
is able to articulate in layman's terms       never got along with his father... Ken                                                            the repressive apartheid regime of       t

the search for the meaning of tife. The       travels       to    South Africa where         he   Mozambique. An expos6 many believe            era for, in reality, Granny Lee v
fitm exptores notions of justice,             meets Zinzi Mandela and Nkocinathi                  motit'^'qd his execution. This         fitm   neither white nor a woman. This i:
reconcitiation and reparations as we          Biko. Both help him reatize !     he                iooklrt the personal and political            fast paced, stylish account of a tin
are confronted by The Sharpeville Six's       can live within the father's shadow,                s:ory     ofa man described   as the'master   small{own man reinvented.
emotional struggte amidst economic            honour the father's memory                and       of controversy' and provides a potted         Courtesy of Underdog Productions &
                                                                                                                                                the SABC.
hardship.                                     maintain his identity.                              -istory of some of his investigations.
Courtesy of Angel Films and e.tv.             Courtesy of Nomod Films.                            lturtesy of Rehad Desoi.
CT   Wed 25 6pm                                CT     30 Bpm screens with Carios Cardoso
                                                    L.4on                                                                                        T Tues   3'1   6pm
     Pane : I Gavshon. T Ny'okushane           Jhb Sun 5 8 15pm screens with Calas Cardasa
Ochre and Water:                                      Patient Abuse:                                        Please Rise                                       The Secret Safari
Himba Chronicles from                                 TAC's Struggle for                                    South Africa zooo 5zmin Video                     Australia   /   SA     zoor 5zmin Video
the land of Kaoko                                     Treatment Access                                      lir:   Sharon Cort                                Dir: Tom Zubrycki
                                                                                South Africa zoor
                                                                                58min Video                                            What is          the
                                                                                Dir: lack Lewis                                        importance of
                                                      It is an unfortunate accident or historV                                         national symbols
                                                      that in 1994, as the first                dtftratic                              -   flags, emblems
South Africa zoor 53min Video                         government           in
                                                                     South Africa came to                   :rd         An evening of musical This is a record of one of the r
                                                                                                                     songs?
Dirs: Craig Matthew & lo6lte Chesselet                power, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was                      -provisation sets the tone for an successful and audacious mitl
                                                      exploding. Virodene, Sarafina ll, the                 =rcloration of the origins of both Dre            operations      of the armed struggle ag
The Kunene River is the tifebtood of                  scrapping of mother-to-child-                         j:em and Nkosi Sikelel'iAfrika.                   apaftheid in South       Afria.   In 1986, the
arid northwestern Namibia and the                     transmission prevention programmes,                   : -vthmicatty weaving historical                  set up an overtand sahri company that
pastoral nomadic Himba, often called the atleged toxicity of anti-retrovirals...                            -sgments and strands with interviews              holidays   to unwitting tourists, used         as

the ochre people, who occupy this the SA government's response to HIV /                                     =-d reflections on the political                  cover to smuggle weapons into South A
harsh, beautifuI landscape. Their AIDS has been characterized by a                                          ; gnificance of both songs, amusing               from Zambia and Zimbabwe. Votunt
cutture has survived drought and war, series of often alarming and tragic                                   - lments rise unexpectedly.                 lda   fiom Britain and The Netherlands drove
but now faces a greater threat. actions. Patient Abuse demonstrates                                         : cbotaphi recounts the struggle to find          safari truck and worted with South Afr
Anesting images explore a [andscape how, in response to the faiture of                                      -:rcomposer grandfather Sontonga's                counterparts     in covert missions to         im
that wil[ disappear when the Namibian governmentl HIV /AIDS programs, the                                   -rmarked grave and sings God Save                 and then distribute the weapons rhsrde
government develops a 45o-megawatt Treatment Action Campaign emerged.                                       :'e    Queen. Personat accounts from              country. The sahri operation brough
hydroetectric dam.            lt witl flood     35o   Using unique archival footage, tracing                loth composers' grandchitdren,                    about forty tonnes of weapons ov(
square kilometers of Himba ancestral                  the history of TAC, the video shows                   Sandile Dikeni's poetry and Professor             period of 7 yeas. No one was ever ctu
lands, destroy their sacred gravesites                how TAC has become the voice for                      (humalo's exptanation           of how the A tale of individuals of courage, cunr
and vital grazing for their herds. Led by             HIV+ people in SA and internationatly                 combined anthem                 was finalty and suspense, with tightly :
Chief Kapika, the Himba detiver a                     and ittustrates how TAC ha* orown                     shorr^ned reveats          iust how South         reconstructions of events using the orig
moving and eloquent protest that                      froma handful of volunteUto a                         nfriL/feet       about the country's hybrid       operatives and interyiews with
questions the effects of globalisation                cadre of dedicated activists,                         anthem.  This documentary was                     passenges who discover, on ctmetit,             v

and development, land rights and                      chatlenging the might of multinationaI                :ommissioned by the SABC to                       was actually under their seats.
cultural survival.                                    pharmaceuticaI companies.                             :elebrate Heritage Day zooo.                      Best Documentary 2oo1 DendyAwan
Courtesy of Doxo Productions and e.tv.                Couftesy of ldol Pictures.                            -)urtesy    of Angel Films & the 9ABC.            Courtesy   of   FRU.

                                                          CT    Fri 27 6Pm                                  CT     Tues 24 6pm
    lntro and Q&A   -   C N/atthew, J   Chesselet lc6.
                                                  t=Y           lntro and Q&A   - J Lewis, Z Achmat                Panel: Gavshon G Domlny, S Cowburn              Pane : J Garraway, S   Gunn J & I Valie
                                                          tnu   sat 4 5.3oom                                                                                       Sun 5 6pm
                                                      I
SHAREEF CULLIS is     a Film Producer
                                                                                         lPanelists
                                                                                         Currently she is establishing a human      MARIANNE THAMM is a
                                           with Stonehouse Productions and        a      'ights media center.                       freelance journalist and author
                                           media activist.                                                                          who writes for a variety of local
South Africa / ltaly zoor 54min Video                                                    :RIVfMEYER grew up in         Mitchetl's   and overseas publications.
Dirs: John W Fredericks & Davide Tosco     SHEILA COWBURN is      a clinical             I ain and was a general lor the Hard
                                           psychologist and .lungian analyst in          - ,ings Gang. Now he is a youth            ,ULIE & ISMAIL VALLIE were MK
Thousands of youth affiliate with gangs    private practice in Cape Town.                ::stor and community leader.               soldiers between t985-t999.
in   poverty-stricken communities and                                                                                               They now run their own
townships      of the    Western   Cape    GRAHAM DOMINY is  the National                THAPELO MOKUSHANE was                      wholesale fruit and vegetable
Province. Many never reach the age of Archivist, in charge of the Bureau of              :':viously a journalist for the   SABC     business.
zr. lf they don't die viotent deaths, Heraldry that is responsible for the               -   'adio and tetevision. He is Media
they go    to   prison   or wind up   in   National Flag and Coat of Arms.               ',':1ager of the lnstitute of Justice      DIRK VAN ZYL SM|T was a

wheelchairs. Yet, young men stil[ aspire                                                 :-l   Reconciliation.                      Consultant on the drafting of the
to   become gangsters, they enlist for     TIM DUNNE is Professor and Head of                                                       correctional r998 Services Act.
protection, survival, status and a sense   Depaftment of Statistical Sciences   (UCT).   aTLFAH OTTO-SALLIES is    a filmmaker,     He holds a joint appointment as
of   belonging. Following two      such
                                                                                         -cvelist and playwright with a Masters     Professor ol Comparitive and
youth, met during a prison workshop,       ,OANNA FLANDERS was coordinator of            ::gree in 'Theatre and multr-              lnternationat Penal   Law.

through their incarceration and after      the Prison Transformation Project at          : sciplines' from Dasafts in Amsterdam.
their release, Fredericks and      Tosco   the center for Conflict Resolution.                                                      STEFAN HUNDT    is the Curator of
explore and debunk the myth "if you                                                      LLOYD POLLACK      is a freelance          the Santam Art Collection, one of
don't belong to a gang, you're             jAMES GARMWAY is an Educationalist,           Iecturer in art, an art critic at the      the largest corporate collections
nothing." Change is not easy in a          cunently employed as a tertiary e/''ration    Cope Times as welI as an art author.       of South African art.
society that rarely forgives and never     cuniculum developer and   researD
forgets. Frankly           eye-opening,                                                  ROSHIEDASHABODIEN is the Director          ROBERTWEINEK is the Director
extraordinarily courageous, rewarding SHIRLEY GUNN was an MK                             :f the Gender   Advocacy Programme         and Administrator of Public Eye
and inspirational viewing.            Commander, working within the                      'lGO). She recentty visited lran as pafi   which promotes art to the
Courtesy of F-forFilm.                Western Cape from 1986 into the 9o's.              :'state delegation.                        greater public.
zz
Sun        Opening Night                             Opening Night                                             CINE 4                                      CINE 6
8pm        Trouble in Paradise                       The Making of a New Empire                  ki z7
           Do lt                                     The Great Dance                             t'n           Patient Abuse                               5pm      Seven Songs from the Tund
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