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 …
Thursday 19th August. 8:30pm. R39
DIR: Erik Gandini / Sweden / Denmark / UK / Finland / 2009 / 85min
Until recently, Italy was the epitome of cool. Now it’s a nation of celebrity-obsessed wannabes, addicted to cheap TV game shows and talent contests in which naked women are the main attraction. Gandini’s film places the blame squarely on the expensively dressed shoulders of one man: Silvio Berlusconi, media magnate and current Italian prime minister. Berlusconi began his career as the host of a strip TV quiz show and now owns or …
