South Africa 2006, English, IsiZulu, Tsotsitaal, SeSotho and Afrikaans with English subtitles, Video, 192 min
Director: Khalo Matabane
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Khalo Matabane, whose riveting Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon won the Best South African Feature Film award at DIFF last year, locates his next project in Soweto circa 1976.
Fistos, an intelligent but awkward teenager, meets Mangi the girl of his dreams. But Mangi is involved with Modise, an articulate student leader. Fistos has to both stave off the local bullies and figure out how to win Mangi in the midst of a revolution.
One of the most vibrant and articulate filmmaking voices in South Africa has made a work about innocence and naivety set against the harsh realities facing South Africa in the 70s.
A coming of age tale, this is also a story about the way that history and politics serve to mould individual identity. The film seeks to examine the ways in which personal identities and stories coincide and relate to broader, political events. Complex, charming and intelligent this is a film with universal appeal. Screening in two parts.
The Cape Winelands will again at the 2012 edition of this festival present a series of Masterclasses and workshops. These events are sponsored by the City of Cape Town and Wesgro.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film has the magic of a fairy tale and the simplicity of a folk tale. Wonderfully immersive, slow and dreamy, 
