From 07.19 to 07.29.2012
Durban International Film Festival
 

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38 witnesses
A film by Lucas Belvaux.
Starring Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, François Feroleto, Natacha  Regnier, Didier Sandre, Patrick  Descamps .
Louise returns home to discover that while she was away on business in China her street was the scene of a crime. There were no witnesses. Everybody was asleep. Apparently.Pierre, Louise's husband, was at work. Apparently.As days go by, Louise learns that thirty-eight people saw or heard something.That Pierre was home that night. He heard. He saw. One of thirty-eight, keeping silent, lying...One of thirty-eight, her husband.

SCREENING
07.22 - 12:00 / Suncoast A
07.28 - 21:30 / Suncoast C
07.29 - 21:00 / Suncoast C
 
 
Stella days
A film by Thaddeus O'Sullivan.
Starring Martin Sheen, Tristan Gravelle, Marcella  Plunkett, Joseph O'Sullivan, Stephen Rea, Tom Hickey, Derble Crotty, Amy Huberman, Ruth McCabe.
A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience. STELLA DAYS is the story of a man, a story about the conflict between love and duty, hope and faith, and between the excitement of the unknown and the security of the familiar. It encapsulates the dilemma of Ireland in the mid-1950s - on the cusp of the modern but still clinging to the traditions of church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.

SCREENING
07.20 - 18:00 / Suncoast B
07.28 - 14:30 / Suncoast B
07.29 - 19:30 / Suncoast B
 
 
Captive
A film by Brillante Mendoza.
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Mulville, Marc  Zanetta, Maria Isabel  Lopez , Rustica Carpio Carpio.
Thérèse Bourgoine is a French volunteer humanitarian-social worker for an NGO on the island of Palawan, Philippines. While transporting supplies to the NGO, Thérèse, her fellow volunteer and a group of tourists are kidnapped by an extremist group of Muslim "Abu Sayyaf Group". The group finds refuge in Mindanao and the chase by the Filipino army begins.

SCREENING
07.22 - 17:00 / Suncoast B
07.23 - 22:00 / Suncoast B
07.28 - 18:30 / Suncoast B
 
 
War Witch
A film by Kim Nguyen.
Starring Rachel  MWANZA , Alain  BASTIEN , Serge KANYINDA , Ralph PROSPER , Mizinga MWINGA .
Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, in a small isolated village, Komona, a twelve-year-old girl, lived peacefully with her parents until the day the rebels came. They pillaged the village, captured Komona and forced her to commit an irreparable act: slay her parents. In the rebels' camp, the training is merciless: Komona is hungry, scared, and the Rebel Leader, who has no pity for her tears, repeatedly beats her if she cries. She quickly learns to endure, to fight and above all, to survive. During a battle waged against the government's army, only Komona is spared. The rebels chief sees this as a sign and declares she is the new sorceress. She is soon brought to Great Tiger, the supreme leader of all the rebels, who makes her his war witch. Only one person is willing to help and listen to her, a 15 year-old-boy named Magician. With the passing months, Magician and Komona fall in love. They experience an all too brief moment of what happiness can be. The war catches up with them. Time passes... Komona is now 14 and pregnant. She wishes to forget the past, but her parents' ghosts keep reappearing. She soon realizes that if she doesn't want her parents' ghosts to haunt her baby, she must undertake the long journey that will lead her back to her birthplace. WAR WITCH is a life lesson, a story of human resilience.

SCREENING
07.23 - 18:00 / Suncoast C
07.24 - 18:00 / Suncoast C
07.28 - 19:30 / Suncoast C