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ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
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One of the leading figures in South Africa's struggle for freedom, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken on an equally important role in healing the ravaging wounds of apartheid through his leadership on the country's Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Bill Moyers talks with the courageous, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Originally broadcast on PBS. 56 mins.
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BEAT THE DRUM
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Opening on lush widescreen shots of South Africa's countryside, Beat the Drum is both literally and figuratively the story of a journey that takes place on two fronts: across the rural and urban divide and on the threshold of childhood and coming of age. When an unidentified illness strikes a village in the KwaZulu-Natal province, young Musa is left orphaned and forced to mobilize to the city of Johannesburg in search of his only known surviving relative, his uncle. In the gritty oil-tinged streets of Johannesburg, Musa falls in with a crowd of street urchins and takes on a number of odd-end jobs to save up enough money to bring home to his village, while also learning about HIV/AIDS. Winning over thirty awards at an array of international film festivals, including the Montreal World Film Festival, Beat the Drum is an important film and couldn't have arrived at a better time, when too much has been said and too little has been done for the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
David Hickson---South Africa/USA---2003---114 mins.
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BIRD CAN'T FLY, THE
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Barbara Hershey stars in this South African-set melodrama about a woman who returns to the mining town she left over a decade before. She's there to attend her daughter's funeral, but arrives too late, and focuses on trying to help pick up what is left of the young woman's family. However, the broken widower (Tony Kgoroge) and misguided son (Yusuf Davids) want her nothing to do with Hershey. She is prepared to leave when a sandstorm changes her life, and that of the entire decrepit town. "...a surreal combination of symbolism, New Age-ism...and striking visuals" (Variety).
Threes Anna---South Africa---2007---89 mins.
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BLACK BUTTERFLIES
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Carice van Hauten (Black Book) stars in this beautiful biopic based on the life of South African poet Ingrid Jonker, who took her own life at the age of 31. Growing up during Apartheid, Ingrid searches for love and meaning in her life, but her outward shine hides her crippling inner depression. With Rutger Hauer as Jonker’s father, and Liam Cunningham and Grant Swanby as her lovers. In English.
Paula van der Oest---Germany/Netherlands/South Africa---2011---100 mins.
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BOESMAN & LENA
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Danny Glover and Angela Bassett star in this heart-wrenching adaptation of Athol Fugard's play about a couple's struggle to survive and not let hatred destroy them as they live a life of constant displacement and oppression under Apartheid. Through flashbacks we see the happiness they once had and how it was taken away from them. Glover "...finds every nuance of Boesman's pride and frustration as well as his deeply buried, nearly evaporated reservoir of tenderness. And Ms. Bassett stokes Lena's pain to such white heat that the screen fairly burns" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times). The last film directed by John Berry, who began his career in Hollywood (He Ran All the Way) but spent much of his career in France and elsewhere after being blacklisted during the McCarthy era. In English. John Berry---France/South Africa---2000---84 mins.
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
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Contemporary South Africa, with its attendant racial, economic, and religious strife, provides the setting for this vibrant and meaningful comedy about lives that intersect at a Cape Town animal rescue shelter. The shelter's busy owner (Debbie Brown), a West African scientist she employs (Eriq Ebouaney), a grieving veterinarian (Morne Visser), and other individuals find their optimism tested and affirmed throughout the course of this warm-hearted, slice-of-life portrait. "A post-apartheid film in which the characters are less concerned with politics than with matters of the heart" (Roger Ebert, Mark Bamford---South Africa---2004---107 mins.
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CRY FREEDOM
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An intimate, true tragedy set against the upheavals in South Africa. Tells of the friendship of white journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) and black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), and the subsequent biography of Biko, championing his cause and telling his story to the world. Richard Attenborough---USA---1987---157 mins.
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CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
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James Earl Jones and Richard Harris star in this adaptation of Alan Paton's famous book. In South Africa two men, one a religious black man and the other a wealthy white farmer, come into conflict over a murder. It's a story that pits family ties and nationalist fervor against the ideals of justice. Darrell Roodt---South Africa---1995---120 mins.
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DISGRACE
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Steve Jacobs directs this gripping adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's novel about a depraved literature professor (John Malkovich) in Cape Town, South Africa. After an ill-advised affair with a black student, he gets forced out of school and travels to see his daughter in the Eastern Cape, an area still seething from apartheid and prone to violence.
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FACING THE TRUTH- BILL MOYERS
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Award-winning journalist Bill Moyers hosts this look at the efforts of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee to bring the high crimes and extreme human rights violations of the apartheid era to light. Interviews with Nobel laureate and TRC architect Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former state security officers, counter-terrorists and journalists are combined with footage from some of the most dramatic TRC hearings, to show one country's extraordinary attempt to come to terms with its oppressive past. 120 mins.
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FUNNY PEOPLE
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It's Candid Camera South African style as famed director Jamie Uys (The Gods Must Be Crazy) presents ordinary people filmed surreptitiousl y in bizarre and hilarious situations. Jamie Uys---South Africa---1977---88 mins.
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GODS MUST BE CRAZY 1 & 2
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Jamie Uys' two unlikely comedies about an African bushman coming face-to-face with 20th century modernity are featured on this special DVD. An international sensation, The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984, 109 mins.) follows a bushman named N!Xau as he discovers a discarded Coke bottle which leads to his first contact with modern man. The sequel, The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989, 98 mins.), sees N!Xau encountering Westerners while searching for his children who have been kidnapped by poachers. Jamie Uys---South Africa/USA/Botswana---1984/1989---207 mins.
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GODS MUST BE CRAZY 2
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Everyone's favorite African Bushman is back in action but this time his mission is personal. When N!Xau finds that his children have been taken for a ride by a pair of unsuspecting poachers, he leaves his village to find them. Along the way he encounters silly white people and other members of the animal kingdom. With Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom and a very tenacious badger. Jamie Uys---USA/Botswana---1989
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GODS MUST BE CRAZY, THE
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An international sensation, one of the highest-grossing foreign films in the U.S. and Europe, Jamie Uys' unlikely comedy is the story of an African bushman who discovers a discarded Coke bottle which ultimately brings him face to face with modern man for the first time. Very heartwarming, entertaining, full of non-stop high-jinks, this story about an innocent bushman's encounter with the 20th century has become one of the cult films of the 1980's.
Jamie Uys---South Africa---1984---109 mins.
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LAND OF THIRST
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Based on Perceval Gibbon's classic novel Margaret Harding, this moving epic examines the racial tensions in Africa in the context of an interracial love story. As a youngster, Khanyiso Phalo (Hlomla Dandala) was taken from his family in South Africa and sent to England. After studying to become a doctor, he returns to the continent in 1913. While there, he falls in love with Margaret Harding (Nina Lucy Wylde), an English woman. Their romance causes turmoil among the settlers and soldiers, leaving the two lovers in fear for their lives and plotting ways they can escape possible death. Meg Rickards---South Africa---2008---98 mins.
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LIFE, ABOVE ALL (BLU-RAY & DVD)
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"The scourge of AIDS haunts this superbly acted South African drama, one with so much initial restraint (a character calls the largely unmentioned disease 'divine punishment') that you wish it didn't tidy itself up into explicitness. Our Winter's Bone-like teen heroine, Chanda (Manyaka), caught up in the whispering of a rural community after her family's newborn dies mysteriously, is a natural magnet for audience affection. Taking the reins, Chanda organizes the funeral, chases down a wayward stepdad, and then hunts for the truth behind her mother's sickness and disappearance. Pride and girl power chafe against the starker realities of health, education and poverty, an admirably complex position from which to make a movie" (Time Out New York). In Sotho with English subtitles.
Oliver Schmitz---South Africa---2010---100 mins.
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MALUNDE
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Set in the new South Africa, this odd couple road movie follows two forgotten souls who find each other. Wonderboy, a homeless young black boy, and Kobus, a white, middle-aged, former Apartheid-era soldier, cross paths when the boy takes refuge in the elder's van. Traveling to Cape Town, the pair experience the beauty of their changing country and form a bond in spite of their Stefanie Sycholt---South Africa---2001---119 mins.
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MAX AND MONA
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A sweet and engaging comedy from South Africa about a boy named Max who leaves his village to one day pursue medicine in Johannesburg. Upon his arrival, he's introduced to rough streets, seductive sirens and wicked gangsters. This mythic road movie has plenty of clever narrative twists and turns, which is why Max is lucky to have his best friend by his side, his goat Mona. "A quirky combination of love, tears, death and comedy, Max and Mona is a charming and deftly made film" (London Film Festival). In English, Tswana, Afrikaans and Zulu with English subtitles. Teddy Mattera---South Africa---2004---98 mins.
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NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY: FIRST SEASON
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Jill Scott stars in this HBO series based on Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling novels about Botswana's first and only detective agency run by women. Co-starring Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, Idris Elba, Cch Pounder and Desmond Dube. Includes all episodes from the show's first season on three discs, along with documentaries, a making-featurette, and more. In English and Tswana with English subtitles.
USA/Botswana---2008-2009---451 mins.
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PURE BLOOD
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The first post-apartheid film to be financed by South Africa's Department of Arts & Culture and the National Film & Video Foundation, this gory horror satire stars Carl Beukes as a white police rookie whose "pure Aryan blood" is capable of resurrecting his dead father--a bigoted ex-general in the Apartheid regime. Writer/Director Kenneth Kaplan undermines notions of "racial purity" by exposing the cop's family as a dysfunctional grab bag of incest and perversion, thereby offering an astute commentary on South African social Kenneth Kaplan---South Africa---2002---96 mins.
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