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Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
Director
The greatest feature to emerge thus far from South Africa (since 1994) is Katinka Heyns's Paljas. The narrative occurs in the 1960s, when poverty amongst Afrikaners was a serious problem and the South African Railway a key mechanism in Afrikaner affirmative action. This excellent Afrikaans language drama follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community. Heyns brilliantly succeeds in creating a metaphor for the Afrikaner family's turbulent emotional, cultural and ideological journey from the darkness of apartheid back into the light of post-apartheid reconciliation (famililial, cultural and political).
Director
The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life."
Young Woman with Noise in Her Head (uncredited)
1980년 9월, 아프리카 칼라하리에 원시 생활을 그대로 영위하며 순진무구한 인간성을 간직한 부시맨이라는 소수의 인종이 살고 있다. 어느날 그 부락 위를 날던 조종사가 빈 콜라병을 던진다. 난생 처음 보는 병을 가지고 희비극이 발생, 고민하던 부시맨들은 신의 물건이라고 생각하는 추장 카이(Xixo: 니카우 분)가 땅 끝에 가서 신에게 돌려주려고 길을 떠난다. 카이는 백인들이 사는 마을을 통과하면서 기상천외의 상황이 벌어지고 순진한 카이는 생활 방식의 차이로 문명인들과 충돌을 일으키다가 급기야는 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 그러나 그 지방에서 동물의 생태를 연구하는 한 백인 학자(Andrew Steyn: 마리어스 웨이어스 분)와 여기자 케이트(Kate Thompson: 산드라 프린스루 분)의 도움으로 풀려나와 그의 연구 작업을 도와준다. 이때 그 지방에 공산 테러단이 경찰에 쫓겨 나타나자 카이의 활약으로 그들을 체포하고 인질로 있던 아이들을 구해낸다. 그리고 고향 칼라하리 사막으로 돌아와 가족들과도 재회한다.
A young man and his girlfriend rebuild an old Tiger Moth with almost no money and parts they battle to find. Her father is totally set against this idea and does not like the boyfriend who claims to be a pilot but does not even have a proper pilot's license. To add to the intrigue, the girlfriend sells her prize white horse to get money for the parts which angers her father even more....
Anne Parker
A lawyer's receptionist is keen on detective stories and crime films. Believing her boss has been killed, she reports it to the police, but once questioned she knows all the answers about his disappearance.
Krissie Hattingh
The picture explores the relationship between a poor widower and his 17-year-old daughter. She dreams of a matric farewell, the handsome boy in her class and a long, white dress. He secretly sells his beloved pigeons to make her a red dress, but in the meantime a teacher also makes Chrissie a dress: a white, elegant dress. Which one will Chrissie choose?
Linda
A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies.
