Alongside the southernmost urban centre in Africa, separating city from ocean, lies an unusual strip of land. The Sea Point Promenade - and the public swimming pools at its centre - forms a space unlike any other in Cape Town. Right here, slightly away from the hustle and bustle of the business area, life is most paraded most unapologetically in all its forms… Over-made-up power-walkers speed past homeless persons kissing above the rocks and rent boys waiting for the next pick-up.
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El otro
Ariel Rotter Argentina 2007
Juan Desouza is a 38 years old argentinean businessman, whose life is going to change after a simple business trip: having arrived at the destination, he realizes that the man that sits next to him is dead. Thereupon he decides to adopt the identity of his neighbour, to create himself a new job, find a new apartment and to possibly not return to his own life. |
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Flower Island - Ggot seom
Il-gon Song South Korea 2001
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Hidden Whisper
Vivian Chang Taiwan 2000
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L'éternité et un jour - Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
Theo Angelopoulos Greece 1998
Eternity And A Day traces the final days of Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his long-dead wife, Anna (Isabelle Renauld), who wrote about an enchanted summer day they spent thirty years ago. |
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La vida es silbar
Fernando Pérez Cuba 1998
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Narayama Bushiko - Imamura
Shohei IMAMURA Japan 1982
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Narayama Bushiko - Kinoshita
Keisuke KINOSHITA Japan 1958
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Sea Point Days
Francois Verster South Africa 2009
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Suite Habana
Fernando Pérez Cuba 2003
It might take two viewings to grasp fully what Fernando Pérez is doing in "Suite Habana," an elusive but intermittently beautiful tone poem on film. There is virtually no dialogue. There are no story lines that build to a climax, no documentary-style voice-overs. |
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The Light Thief - Svet-Ake
Aktan Abdikalikow - Arym Kubat Kyrgyzstan 2010
They call him "Svet-ake" ("Mr. Light"). The electrician is responsible for bringing more than just light to the people around him. Like moths, everybody is drawn to his kindness: those with short circuits in their electricity, and those with short circuits in their marriage, those who have taken all the power in the city, and those who have given up the will to live. |
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand 2010
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. |









