Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
Wed 29 Oct at 6.00pm
Khalo Matabane | South Africa 2005 | 1h20m |BetaSP | French, English, Swahili and Zulu with English subtitles | 15
South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane mixes fiction and documentary in
this emotive interrogation of contemporary South African
society.
Set in Johannesburg, the film is told from the perspective of
a journalist searching for a woman, a shy and lonely Somali refugee
called Fatima, whom he met one day in a park. His search results in
encounters with many (actual) refugees and immigrants who have fled
war, discrimination and poverty in their home countries - from
Yugoslavia, South Korea, Ethiopia, the Congo...
What emerges is a
moving portrait of the multifaceted nature of the new South Africa,
and a thoughtful interrogation of the looming potential for social and
humanitarian crises caused by the influx of new immigrants into the
country, a warning which, sadly, proved prophetic in the light of
recent events in South Africa.
