Documentary festival offers world premières

Encounters, considered as one of the leading documentary festivals on the African continent and a major event on the film circuit calendar, will take place from 12-29 August 2010 in Cape Town and 18-29 August in Johannesburg. The festival will feature 50+ films, many award winning titles, fresh from international festivals, eight of which will make their world première.

19 Jul 2010

Documentary festival offers world premières

South African themes

The organisers have selected the best films that portray the South African landscape and its peoples. Young international directors present an outsider's view of South African political history and a look at life in the underbelly of the urban sprawl and age-old traditional rituals and three South African documentary filmmakers Clifford Bestall, Rehad Desai and Jo Menell present the South African view.

RFK In The Land of Apartheid - A Ripple of Hope US 2009
Comrade Goldberg Germany 2010 - world première
On The Other Side of Life Germany 2009
Promised Land US 2010
The 16th Man SA 2010
The Battle for Johannesburg SA 2010
Thembi SA 2010 - world première
Afrikaaps SA 2010 - world première
Afrikaner Afrikaan SA 2009
Earthchild SA 2008
Here Be Dragons SA 2010 - world première
Unhinged: Surviving Jo'burg SA 2010

African continent's best

Congo in Four Acts DRC/SA 2009
State of Mind Directed DRC 2009
Driving with Fanon SA/Sierra Leone 2010
For the Best and for the Onion! Niger/France 2008 - multi-award winner

International fare

And now for something completely different - Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) UK 2009
Winnebago Man US 2009 - multi-award winner
The Yes Men Fix the World US/UK/France 2009 - award winner
Of Heart and Courage: Béjart Ballet Lausanne Spain 2009
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Canada 2009
City of Photos India 2005
The Oath US 2010
Videocracy Sweden/Denmark/UK/Finland 2009
Sins of My Father
Columbia/Argentina 2009 - award and nomination
Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space France/Canada 2009
Petition France/China 2009
The Sound of Insects 2009 - award winner
Tapped US 2009

Venues

In Cape Town, the festival will run at the NuMetro, V&A Waterfront and the Labia on Orange, 68 Orange Street. In Johannesburg it will be held at The Bioscope Independent Cinema, Main Street Life, 286 Fox Street, Maboneng Precinct in the CBD.