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From Oscar- nominated\u00a0I Am Not Your Negro\u00a0to Sundance winner\u00a0Winnie\u00a0and Nick\u00a0Broomfield\u2019s brutally realistic film of\u00a0Whitney Houston\u00a0–\u00a0Whitney: Can I Be Me –\u00a0these are just some\u00a0of the most talked about documentaries on the international and South African circuits\u00a0to be screened at the prestigious and much anticipated Encounters South African International Documentary Festival next month. \u00a0The\u00a0line-up consists of over 60 \u00a0acclaimed films \u00a0and takes place from\u00a01-11 June\u00a0at the Labia , the Nouveau V&A Waterfront and\u00a0Bertha Movie House, Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha\u00a0in Cape Town and the Bioscope and the Nouveau Rosebank in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
*Raoul Peck\u2019s Oscar-nominated documentary\u00a0I Am Not Your Negro\u00a0as spoken by visionary writer and social critic James Baldwin on racial hatred in America narrated by Samuel L Jackson.<\/p>\n
*2017 Sundance \u2013 Award winning documentary director\u00a0Pascale Lamche\u2019s film\u00a0Winnie\u00a0on South Africa\u2019s controversial anti-apartheid icon Winnie\u00a0Madikizela\u2013Mandela\u2019s rise and fall from grace.<\/p>\n
*Internationally acclaimed film-maker Nick Broomfield\u2019s intimate biography<\/p>\n
Whitney: Can I Be Me?\u00a0\u00a0on the tragic life of Whitney Houston, one of the most successful recording artist of all time.<\/p>\n
*Oscar nominated\u00a0 –\u00a0Life Animated\u00a0\u2013 a real life story of an autistic boy who couldn\u2019t speak for years whose family created an animated world of Disney characters so that they could talk to him<\/p>\n
*The\u00a0Return of a President: After the Coup in Madagascar\u00a0on the return\u00a0of democratically elected president Marc Ravalomanana from exile in South Africa after a bloody coup.<\/p>\n
*Syrian director Firas Fayyad\u2019s frontline study\u00a0Last Men in Aleppo\u00a0on the unbroken cycle of devastation experienced by three reluctant heroes in Syria.<\/p>\n
* Tickling Giants\u00a0the\u00a0ebullient\u00a0portrait of Bassem Youssef the heart-surgeon-turned-comedian who became known as \u201cthe Jon Stewart of Egypt.\u201d From Mubarak to Morsi and then El- Sisi his show united the\u00a0country but tested the limits of free press.<\/p>\n
*World premiere of South Africa director Lucy Witt\u2019s\u00a0Dragan\u2019s Lair, a thought provoking and courageous dissection of rape and abuse by her stepfather and confrontations with him as an adult.<\/p>\n
*Vincent Moloi\u2019s\u00a0Skulls of My People\u00a0about the struggle of the Hereo and Nama people of Namibiaseeking the return of the skulls taken by German scientists\u00a0 after the 1904 genocide.<\/p>\n
In what has been a year of global political turmoil the line-up covers a wide range of thought provoking, relevant and gripping topics from fake news in the age of Donald Trump in\u00a0All Governments\u00a0Lie: Truth, Deception, And the Spirit of IF Stone\u00a0to Brexit in\u00a0Brexitannia,\u00a0with British voters explaining their gut, nostalgic and sometimes absurd reasons to leave or remain in the European Union.<\/p>\n
The killing of an 18 year old in Ferguson, Missouri, that inspired the rise of Black Lives Matter movement is captured in\u00a0Whose Streets\u00a0while\u00a0Stranger in Paradise\u00a0takes an off the wall look at the complex plight of asylum seekers and refugees in an increasingly hostile Europe.<\/p>\n
Miki Redelinghuy\u2019s\u00a0This Land\u00a0examines the lives of villages once forcibly removed under apartheid now under threat from a mining company in cahoots with the Entembeni Zulu Royal Family, while Aryan Kaganof\u2019s\u00a0Metalepsis in Black\u00a0is a daring account of the \u2018Fees Must Fall\u2019 movement gripping the country\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n
Bringing past political context to current topical debates, Sifiso Khanyile\u2019s\u00a0Uprize!\u00a0\u00a0highlights the 1976 protest action of student activists in Bonteheuwel, Langa and the Cape Flats with struggle stalwarts\u00a0expressing their disappointment with thestatus quo, while Nomakhomazi Derwarvin\u2019s\u00a0Indwe\u00a0chronicles events that led up to the famous 1956 women\u2019s march in Pretoria (world premiere) and\u00a0Troupes of War:\u00a0Ditrupa\u00a0(world premiere) juxtaposes black memory against white history.<\/p>\n
Helping to conceptualise transformation are some socially relevant films featuring the work of a variety of artists. The much-anticipated world premiere of\u00a0Goldblatt\u00a0a biography of leading photographer David Goldblatt \u2018s life\u2019s work directed by Daniel Zimbler (with interviews with Nadine Gordimer and William Kentridge) and\u00a0Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back a portrait of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan who once duct taped his dealer to a wall and made a sculpture of a penitent Hitler and the highly anticipated\u00a0Deep Blue: Middle C\u00a0by two time Encounters audience award winner director Bryan Little promises not to disappoint.<\/p>\n
The Festival offers an eclectic lineup of International features.<\/p>\n
Oscar and BAFTA nominated The Eagle Huntress\u00a0 an empowering and awe-inspiring movie based on the true story of 13-year-old Aisolpan Nurgaiv, who became the first female in 12 generations of her nomadic Kazakh family to learn how to become an eagle hunter\u00a0to talented Dutch director Samira Elagoz\u2019s intimate encounters with strangers in\u00a0Craiglist Allstars\u00a0and Christina Clusiau\u2019s exploration of the international big game hunting industry and the attendant conservation movement in\u00a0Trophy.<\/p>\n
Politics enters the world sports arena in Daniel Gordon\u2019s\u00a0The Fall the dramatic \u00a0story of South African track star Zola Budd and America\u2019s Mary Decker in the grubby world of 1980s Olympic sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Games \u00a0to\u00a0 Maya Zinshtein\u2019s expos\u00e9 of racism in the Beitar Jerusalem football team in\u00a0Forever Pure\u00a0while the dark heart of the global workplace is laid bare in\u00a0Machines\u00a0on the Victorian conditions facing textile workers.<\/p>\n
Other international favourites include Poland\u2019s Anna Zamecka\u2019s\u00a0Communion\u00a0f Bulgaria\u2019s Tonislav Histov\u2019s\u00a0The Good Postman\u00a0and Chile\u2019s Maite Alberdi\u2019s\u00a0The Grown- Ups.<\/p>\n
Favourites from the African Continent include Award- winning local director Riaan Hendricks world premiere of\u00a0 A Country of Fishers\u00a0a fly on the wall look at fishermen in Hout Bay and Eve Munyiri\u2019s moving biography\u00a0Waithria\u00a0on \u00a0colonialism and immigration is showcased.<\/p>\n
African documentaries\u00a0 are well represented with The African Who Wanted to Fly from Gabon, Mama Colonel from the DRC and The Fruitless Tree from Niger.<\/p>\n
In partnership with Swiss Films, Encounters proudly presents Heidi Specongo\u2019s\u00a0Caheir Africain\u00a0disturbing Central African testimonies of trauma at the hands of mercenaries and Lauence Bonvin\u2019s three compelling shorts\u00a0After Vegas,\u00a0Blikkiesdorp\u00a0and\u00a0Before the Flight Avant\u2019envol.<\/p>\n
Other Swiss must-sees are Jacques Mathey\u2019s magical musical biography\u00a0Jazz: The Only Way of Life. Jacqueline Zund\u2019s existential masterpiece\u00a0Almost There\u00a0and Segio Da Costa\u2019s delicately constructed debut feature film\u00a0Rio Corgo\u00a0about a Portuguese drifter.<\/p>\n
For further information check the website\u00a0www.encounters.co.za<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0contact Joy Sapieka on e-mail\u00a0Joyls@mweb.co.za<\/a>, cell 073 2125492 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Oscar- nominated\u00a0I Am Not Your Negro\u00a0to Sundance winner\u00a0Winnie\u00a0and Nick\u00a0Broomfield\u2019s brutally realistic film of\u00a0Whitney Houston\u00a0–\u00a0Whitney: Can I Be Me –\u00a0these are just some\u00a0of the most talked about documentaries on the international and South African circuits\u00a0to be screened at the prestigious and much anticipated Encounters South African International Documentary Festival next month. \u00a0The\u00a0line-up consists of over… Continue reading Encounters Documentary Festival Announces 2017 Line-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","tag-encounters","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}