To be announced – We love this film but the work to organise its screening is still in progress.
Set in Durban South Africa and based on the experiences of the city’s Homeless children, My Secret Sky follows the story of ten-year-old Thembi and her eight-year-old brother Khwezi. They decide to journey to the city of Durban from their village with their only possession of a traditional Zulu mat made by their mother for a craft competition. Their mother had woven the mat in the hope of entering a competition encouraged by a white priest who had visited the village. But when they arrive in the big city they are confronted with a gang of street kids led by 12-year-old Chilli Bites. Chilli Bites befriends them and tells them of a friend who knows the priest. The friend who turns out to be a pimp whose only intent is to sell Thembi to people with the pervasive myth that sex with virgin cures AIDS takes them in. The director has coaxed some remarkable performances from his young cast particularly Sibahle Mkhabase who gives a raw and delicate quality to the film as ten year old Thembi.
Director: Madoda Ncayiyana
Writers: Julie Frederiske, Madoda Ncayiyana
Cast: Sobahle Mkhabase, Sibonelo Malinga
Country: South Africa
Year: 2008
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