At The Arts Picturehouse
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Time: 6.00-8.30 PM
Opening CAFF: LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE + Q&A + Reception with Live Music
Welcome by Cambridge Film Trust director and CAFF director
FILM TITLE: LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE + Q&A
Director: Jenna Cato Bass
Starring: Chi Mhende and Andile Nebulane
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: 2014
Length: 105 min
Language: English and isiXhosa, with English subtitles
Genre: Romantic comedy, drama, mystery
Synopsis: What if you discovered that love was a conspiracy? Would you still love the one you love? Across the city of Cape Town, a sex-line operator (Chi Mhende), a dog handler (Andile Nebulane) and an IT-technician (Louw Venter) begin to suspect that their romantic relationships are the subject of a bizarre conspiracy, involving their friends, family and possibly even greater forces. LOVE THE ONE YOU LOVE’s parallel stories question the ideals we hold too sacred: love, happiness, and the New South Africa, the pursuit of which makes truth impossible.
Love the One You Love won three awards at the 35th Durban International Film Festival in 2014: Best South African Feature Film, Best Direction of a South African Feature Film & Best Actress (to Chi Mhende).
We hope the film will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Jenna Cato Bass (via Skype), led by Dr Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS, University of London).
This film is part of a love-themed African film series called ‘From Africa, with Love’, in a collaboration between the five African film festivals in the UK: Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival in Scotland, Film Africa in London, Afrika Eye in Bristol, Watch-Africa in Wales, and the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), in association with the BFI UK Audience Network’s LOVE Blockbuster Season.
The film will be followed by a reception at the Arts Picturehouse Café from 8.30 to 9.30 PM, with live music by Kihaya Blues.
Tanzanian guitarist, singer, songwriter, performer, Kyazi Lugangira has emerged as a creative composer with music that blends soul, blues, latin, funk, jazz and hip hop with roots coming from African music.
For more info, check his website http://www.kihayablues.com.
