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Amid the logic-destroying hysteria surrounding Brett Murray’s (now defaced) The Spear, the Film and Publications Board will sit to decide if personal dignity trumps art and freedom of expression. Eighteen years into South Africa’s democracy and our censorship system...
The Films and Publications Board (FPB) announced this morning that a panel of its classifiers has classified The Spear (as well as “images and/or replicas” of it), in terms of the Film and Publications Act and gave it a rating of 16N. The Spear, for those readers who...
The Amandla! Film That Matter Series, 2012 Here is a taste of just some of the films we’ve got lined up for the first quarter of the year. These films are screened every fortnight at the AIDC. Check out our Facebook page for more information @Amandla! Media. TAC:...
The Trouble with TruthDirector: Marion Edmunds, 2010This engaging documentary tells the story of the Guardian newspaper which was banned by the Nationalist government in the 1950s as part of its general onslaught on the anti-apartheid media and anti-communist...
The documentary Imam and I by Khalid Shamis was screened at the beginning of June at the Encounters Film Festival in Cape Town. Shamis is the grandson of the film’s protagonist, Imam Haron. He talks here about this six-year-long project, his portrait of the Imam and...
The Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is.Why it started in the United States when it did - and not three days,...
The National Health Insurance (NHI) Campaign invites you to a screening of Swimming Against the Tide, a film about the Cuban health system. The film will be followed by a discussion with the film maker about the Struggle for Health. SPEAKERS: Tom Fawthrop (film-maker)...
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) Film Society and the District Six Museum, presents the Cape Town Launch of “The Prodigal Son” – Directed by Kurt OrdersonKurt Orderson, a Rastafarian and young filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa, retraces...
Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud reviewed by Sarah Sachs-Eldridge Based on a graphic novel memoir written by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is a treat. An animated film, it is unlike anything I've ever seen before, mainly, but not entirely, in...