Film Festival has landed: ENCOUNTERS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
We hope all film lovers have been working up a good appetite because you are about to be well fed. The Encounters Documentary Festival is here and it promises to be worth more than your money’s worth. Do yourselves a favour and indulge. Here’s all the info you need to relish the festivities! 8th edition of Encounters SA International Documentary Festival Johannesburg:/STRONG Nu Metro Hyde Park 14 July – 23 July 2006 Cape Town: Nu Metro V & A Waterfront 21 July – 6 August 2006Every year Encounters brings to South African audiences ‘factional’ films. Films that often contradict popular beliefs, but that still allow people to make up their own minds about what is happening in the world – the intimate, the political, the musical and the personal. This year, Encounter’s 8th, is no different – the 56 titles (21 South African, 5 African and 31 international) provide fascinating subject matter. The excellent line up has been chosen from over 550 films, a record number that is a sure sign that Encounters is now recognised as an important festival by local and international filmmakers alike. Loose themes encompass the full spectrum of human experience, and include inspiring Journalists on the Edge, provocative Food For Thought, an unconventional look at The Race Debate and Revisiting Colonialism, revealing investigations into the Results of War, a focus on Africa, highly personal Questions of Family and Society, and a rocking Business of Music section. This year the Festival has moved to new venues – Nu Metro Hyde Park and V & A Waterfront. Two influential directors are receiving special attention this year. In his lifetime, the great French auteur Jean Rouch created a formidable body of work, mostly in West Africa. The tiny selection Les Maitres Fous, Petit A’ Petit, and Chronique D’Un Ete (Mad Masters, Little by Little and Chronicle of a Summer) at Encounters gives audiences a taste of his groundbreaking approach and innovative style that gave birth to Cinema verite. Encounters, assisted by the French Embassy, will host Bernard Sugurue, Claude Haffner and Sue Levine, colleagues of Rouch, who will provide an invaluable glimpse into Rouch’s world. Always managing to endearingly bumble himself into the most outlandish situations, Nick Broomfield is one of Britain’s most respected documentary filmmakers. His lens has captured and investigated the personalities of many of the world’s most infamous people, among them Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss and Margaret Thatcher. For this Encounters, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love (Kurt & Courtney), Biggie Smalls and Tupac (Biggie & Tupac), and our very own Eugene Terreblanche (His Big White Self) come into not so flattering focus. Polygamy, misinterpretation,...
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