Sunday 22nd August. 7:30pm. R39
DIRS: Dieudo Hamadi, Divita Wa Lusala & Kiripi Katembo Siku
DRC / SA / 2010 / 69min
These 4 shorts, by first-time Congolese filmmakers, offer a rare glimpse of life there, stories that range from the absurd to the horrifying to the heartbreaking; from mothers and their babies held hostage at a maternity hospital until they can pay their bills to small
children breaking rocks at an exhausted mine. Unflinchingly honest, the young filmmakers have created moments of visual poetry and compassionately reveal the frailty, doggedness and beauty of …
Wednesday 25th August. 8:30pm. R39
SA / 2010 / 68min / Courtesy of Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking
AMAJOKER
Dir: Tamandani Kapisa / SA / 2010 / 12min
A humorous account of a day in the life of young boys, with painted faces, dancing at intersections to entertain passers-by.
ATROPHY
Dir: Palesa Shongwe / SA / 2010 / 8min
Picture, poetry, voice and music are woven together in a contemplative short piece about the lingering memory of youth. Using dance as a metaphor, the film reflects on how ‘growing-up’ and moving on, can unexpectedly stifle freedom …
Saturday 28th August. 5pm. R39
DIR: Makela Pululu / SA / 2010 / 70min
One of Africa’s greatest soccer stars, a man with an unbroken record of scoring the most goals in the 1974 Africa Cup of Nations, nine of them, works as a car guard in Cape Town. This film traces the harrowing travails of Pierre Ndaye Mulamba, whose talent on the ball saw him rise to great heights in his native DRC. He was a key member of the Zaire national team that was the first sub-Saharan team to qualify …
Friday 20th August. 8pm. R39
DIR: Rehad Desai / SA / 2010 / 71min
In the run up to the World Cup, the long-running struggle for control of central Jozi intensified. But, as this film demonstrates, ambitious urban renewal projects aimed at transforming the mean streets into a “World Class city” haven’t made much headway against endemic crime, and a burgeoning population of poor migrants occupying crumbling tenements. Desai turns investigative reporter as he exposes the brutality of evictions, police raids and self-appointed landlords, the appalling living conditions of the residents and …
Saturday 28th August. 8:30pm. R39
DIR: Ben Steinbauer / USA / 2009 / 87min
When outtakes from a 20-year-old sales video for Winnebago autohomes made it onto YouTube, the presenter, Jack Rebney, became an unwitting internet sensation. Dubbed “the angriest man in the world”, Rebney’s hilarious, expletive-drenched outbursts have been downloaded by millions and widely quoted in Hollywood movies and TV shows. But who the man was and what happened to him remained a mystery. Filmmaker Steinbauer was intrigued enough to track Rebney to his isolated mountain cabin where he finds the …
