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Mother City (2024)
Directed by Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert
“A Daring Urban Revolution in a City Breathtakingly Beautiful and Brutal”
Documentary · 1h 42m
Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town – a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid 30 years into democracy. The story begins when the government sells a school, meant for affordable housing, to a private developer. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, this intimate and at times funny narrative documentary charts Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi leading a defiant war against government and property developers – on the streets, in the supreme court and in parliament.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert
- Director of Photography
- Zacharia Mashele, Miki Redelinghuys, Tim Wege, Pearlie Joubert
- Original Music Composer
- Charl-Johan Lingefelder, Edward George King
- Editor
- Khalid Shamis
- Producer
- Zikethiwe Ngcobo, Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert
Details
- Release date
- 2024-06-14
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- AF
- Spoken languages
- Afrikaans, English, Xhosa
- Countries
- South Africa