Durban International Film Festival Selection

From 1 -3 August, The Bioscope is proud to present a special selection of films from this year’s Durban International Film Festival.

PROGRAMME

SUN 3 Aug 12pm: THE HOME BOOK NOW. A good-humored portrait on the oldest and largest Jewish homes in South Africa as its clients kvetch about companions and battle to elect a new Resident Committee. A gentle observational comedy, but also a record of a microcosmos of South Africa today, where a legacy of racial and economic segregation still lingers.

SUN 3 Aug 2pm: STREET TRASH BOOK NOW. In the year 2050, global economic turmoil has destroyed the middle class in Cape Town, South Africa, which is now divided between the ultra-rich and the unhoused. Ronald and a group of fellow houseless friends uncover a plot by the local government to “liquify“ the houseless population with a sinister chemical agent called “V”.