Its the North of France, Sainte-Gudule, in 1977. Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and ‘trophy housewife’. When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. To everyone’s surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when Robert returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated…

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State of Violence is a potent drama by filmmaker Khalo Matabane, about a South African corporate leader whose past as a violent revolutionary comes back to threaten him. Showing at The Bioscope from the 29th October.

 
Newest Miss Representation Trailer (2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection) from Miss Representation on Vimeo.
When the new documentary film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message.
As the most persuasive …

Kinshasa is a city of silky smooth and pulsating nightlife, always ready to go on forever. The happy few who have it all live the high life, never looking back on those who have nothing and live in envy, dreaming of their turn as kings and queens of the night. Riva is one of those dreamers who had nothing, until he returned from ten years away, his pockets full of cash and determined to have the time of his life. With his old pal, J.M., he sets out for a …

 
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This …

Screened at THE BIOSCOPE for the first time ever in South Africa, LIVING IN EMERGENCY is a critically acclaimed, no-holds barred documentary about medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at work.
Filmed in the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, with unprecedented access to MSF’s field operations, the film follows four volunteer doctors as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Amidst the chaos, each volunteer must confront the severe challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their own idealism.
This is …

Unaware of what they might find, a group of international journalists visit a small village in Darfur under the protection of the African Union (AU). They manage to convince their guide to take them to a village in Janjaweed territory.
When they arrive, the journalists see how the Sudanese live daily in fear of rape, torture and murder by the government and the rebel militia. While they are interviewing the Sudanese men and women for accounts to take back home to prove to the UN that genocide has occurred, the Janjaweed …

It’s a jungle out there. That’s how we meet our lead character Jack. It’s been five years since he’s seen his partner and best friend Twala. Jack did five years for a robbery gone bad. Twala never got caught and Jack never talked. But Twala is as treacherous as Jack is honourable. He’s married Jack’s former fiancée.
Jack wants to go legit but after being rejected for a loan he needs a new source of capital. Twala presents him with an opportunity a job with a R2 million take. The complication …

 
SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GLOBAL ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT.
Produced & Directed by Connie Field

Best Documentary Series of 2010 International Documentary Association
Best Documentary of 2010 Time Out New York, Village Voice
One of the 10 Best Films of  the Year (2010) Slant Magazine

Connie Field is the director of some of the most exciting, politically potent documentaries of our time: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER and FREEDOM ON MY MIND. Her new film is nothing less than the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy …