Fresh Encounters

RUTV4 reviews Encounters Film Festival. So many docs to see for free
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Fresh Encounters

So no, Makhanda is not Wakhanda, people, we’re the hometown of Rhodes University and the School of Journalism and Media Studies where we are all studying TV. For us, it’s brilliant that Encounters Film Festival is online this year. In past years we could never see the film festival out there in Cape Town, Joburg and the bigger smokes.
Now you can watch the Encounters Film Festival 2020 anywhere you are… whether you’re in iBayi, in Alice, eMonti or out in Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Jozi etc – Shoutout to all the Journalism and Media students out there! And if you want to know about documentary film, and what to watch at the Encounters Film Festival this year, we’re here to guide you, cos we actually produce and study this stuff.
So deal with your #FOMO and book a doccie to watch! (more…)

For Sama – the experience

Clair O’Reilly experiences For Sama – at the virtual Encounters Film Festival 2020.

The documentary from Syria is pipped for a documentary Oscar and provides a rare account of the female experience of war. Taking the form of a love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of journalist Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo.

Good Hope for all

Temba Mkosi takes a roller coaster ride to the future

A rise of pessimism in South Africa is a worrying factor as social and economic inequality widens due to the current state of the nation and its complex history. Good Hope is a documentary for those who still believe in a positive future for South Africa. Director Anthony Fabian explores the complex state of the country and takes the viewer through scenarios of pessimism, solutions and optimism for the future. (more…)

A zoom for two – From Underground to the Corridors of Power

A zoom review for two that opens a lot of conversation after watching a documentary about earlier times and Cyril Ramaphosa and the mines. From Underground to the Corridors of Power.
Have a look and listen at a new review style.

Production by Catherine White

No place to call iKhaya

Ongezwa Shosha goes on a journey searching for identity

It is said that through knowing where you come from, your history, roots, language and values, comes your identity. But what happens when a home you’ve been calling a home your whole life is not your home? Ikhaya or Casa (home) centers around redefining what a home and sense of belonging is. It starts off by asking questions: “Where do I belong? What do I call home? Is it the language I speak? Is it where I am accepted? Is it where I was raised? Or is it where I was born?”. These are some questions asked by 19 year old Eliana Nkembo, a young woman born to immigrant parents in a foreign country when talking about her identity.
The documentary shows that many factors including documentation and citizenship may hinder one’s chances of belonging and feeling accepted. Eliana Nkembo, was raised in South Africa when her parents moved from Angola and Congo. She finds herself in a position where she has no place to rightfully call home. (more…)