Africa’s premier film event, the Durban International Film Festival, which is hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, presents its 36th edition from 16 to 26 July, 2015, in the east coast city of Durban, South Africa. Arguably the continent’s biggest film event, which attracts both film-lovers and industry representatives from across […]
First Festival Screening – Thursday, July 23, 2015 @ 8:00 PM Suncoast 8 After the death of her husband, a taxi driver, Selma decides to take matters into her own hands and takes over her husband’s taxi. She is confronted by the Kafkaesque procedures of the Tunisian bureaucracy. With quiet determination she refuses to let […]
First Festival Screening – Tuesday, July 21, 2015 @ 8:00 PM Cinema Nouveau Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 7:30 PM Cinema Nouveau Young fisherman Fettah has befriended many of the European windsurfers that visit his tiny village on the Moroccan Atlantic coast every summer. He has eagerly adopted their way of life and with the help of old equipment the tourists left behind has […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, July 19, 2015 @7:00 PM Bay of Plenty Lawns of North Beach Photographer Chris Burkard and pros Patrick Millin, Brett Barley, and Chadd Konig brave sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic Circle to capture moments of raw beauty in conditions that rank among the harshest in the natural world. The bitterly […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 9:45 PM Suncoast 8 An explosive and gritty crime thriller set in the seedy back streets of a Paris tourists rarely venture, Dealer follows 24 hours in the increasingly hellish life of a 30-something small time drug dealer. Dan is itching to get out of the […]
Festival Screening – Thursday, July 16 @ 7pm Set in the vibrant, Afropolitan community of Johannesburg’s Yeoville, Ayanda is a coming-of-age story of a twenty-one year old Afro-hipster, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she has to fight to save her late father’s legacy – a motor repair shop – when it is […]
