[Afrika Eye 2010] First programme announcement!

[Afrika Eye film festival: African films from an African perspective]

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Between Joyce and Remembrance

Director: Mark J. Kaplan; Producer: Grey Matter Media;
Origin: South Africa, 2003; Running time: 68 minutes

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An entire day of Afrika Eye 2010 will be dedicated to the topic of reconciliation - strategies to heal old wounds. Three films, carefully selected as real discussion raisers, will be screened and complemented with talks, discussions, and workshops on the same topic. The first of these films is Between Joyce and Remembrance, which tells a personal story that took place as part of the extraordinary, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Started in 1995, the TRC offered "free confession" for people who had acted for the apartheid state against its people. There was to be no punishment, and the meetings and relationships that developed in its wake offer an insight into the mechanisms of reconciliation.

22-year-old student leader and activist Siphiwo Mtimkulu was shot and burned in 1982 by Security Police under the former apartheid government. Director Mark J. Kaplan spent years documenting the effects of this murder on Mtimkulu's family and what happened when the murderer says he wants apologise face-to-face. Critical, positive, and sometimes just observational, this film offers a revealing and personal exposition of just one of the many attempts at reconciliation that the TRC allowed in post-apartheid South Africa.

To watch the trailer, visit the Bullfrog Films website here.
Keep an eye on the Programme for the time and date of this showing!

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Posted By Afrika Eye film festival: African films from an African perspective to Afrika Eye 2010 on 7/23/2010 01:40:00 AM