Sunday 29 November 4.00pm at The Lexi Cinema – Book Now!

This beautifully crafted documentary has the Sea Point Promenade on the Cape Town waterfront as it’s setting. The film observes and explores issues of race, poverty, religion and homelessness in what was once an exclusive white suburb during the apartheid years. There is a mixed vibrancy of colour, sound, sunsets and in the distant horizon you can almost see the Notorious Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life. As people of all colours use the public swimming pool, with the Muslim prayers by the beachfront, its ageing citizens reminiscent about its past, relieved that there can still go for their walks as well as to the theatre but concerned about the future of the white man in Africa.
No conclusions are drawn except that Cape Town like the rest of South Africa is a city in transition that is trying to forget its ugly past and perhaps suggesting a possibility of a promising future.

Director: François Verster
Writer: François Verster
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Country: South Africa
Year: 2008
Runtime: 90 min

Saturday 28 November 4.00pm at The Lexi Cinema – UK Première – Book Now!

This award winning drama is a South African Romeo and Juliet tale, GUGU AND ANDILE is a love-story set against the backdrop of the war that raged through South Africa’s townships in the early 1990s. It tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers, unlucky enough to be born into families on opposite sides of the political and cultural divide. Gugu, a sweet and innocent sixteen-year old, comes from a Zulu-speaking family, while Andile, eighteen and equally ready for love, comes from a family steeped in the Xhosa tradition.
Their love is thoroughly disapproved of by the rest of the community. In the prevailing climate it is forbidden for two people from such different backgrounds to form a connection. The war, with its cultural differences and associated political allegiances, encroaches on Gugu and Andile’s lives and, in spite of their resistance, they become deeply embroiled. As in the original Romeo and Juliet, they will both lose loved ones and go through flame and fire for the sake of their love.

Director: Minky Schlesinger
Writer: Lodi Matsetela
Cast: Litha Booi,Lungelo Dhladhla
Country: South Africa
Year: 2008
Runtime: 96 min