Audiences at CAFF in Day 2 of the festival. Photographer: Shameela Beeloo.
Panelists Dr Ruba Salih (Reader in Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London), David Africa (South African commentator and analyst), and Chair, Dr Joel Cabrita, (Lecturer of World Christianities, University of Cambridge and member of CAFF Advisory Board). Photographer: Shameela Beeloo.
CAFF continued yesterday with a day on the theme of oppression, with the screening of ‘El Problema’, on the situation of Western Sahara, and ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’, drawing a comparison between the situation in Palestine and the apartheid era in South Africa, both followed by very interesting and strong discussions with experts and commentators on the subjects.
To watch the whole Q&A of Roadmap to Apartheid, click here.
Day 3, Monday: 1994: The Bloody Miracle + Q&A with film director and producer
The Festival continues today with the first South African guest filmmaker of the South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour, Meg Rickards, with her documentary film ’1994: The Bloody Miracle’. The screenings of her documentary went really well in Cardiff and London, with very different audiences responses. We are looking forward to the screening and Q&A today at 6pm at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge!
As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now, for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994: The Bloody Miracle is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy, and at how they have now made an uneasy peace with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in their own different ways.
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Cambridge African Film Festival, in collaboration with the four other African film festivals in the UK - Film Africa in London, Afrika Eye in Bristol, Watch-Africa in Wales, and Africa in Motion in Scotland - are organising a UK-wide tour to take the best of South African cinema to locations across the UK from Oct 2014 to Feb 2015, in celebration of 20 years of democracy and freedom. The tour is supported by the British Film Institute’s Programming Development Fund, awarding funds from The National Lottery. The tour is organised as part of the South African Season in the United Kingdom 2014 & 2015. The SA-UK Seasons is a partnership between the Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa, and the British Council.