Saturday, November 13: 4:00 pm People Center

Political apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, yet economic justice still eludes the largely impoverished black population who continue to struggle for fair housing, access to water, education for their children, and other basic human rights. German filmmakers Kleider and Michel take their camera to the slums of Cape Town, South Africa, where privatization of government services and high-end housing developments have descended like a plague. Zoliswa, a single mother of two, works three days a week as a maid and is looking for a badly needed second job. Arnold, barely out of boyhood, works night patrol in a gated community while training to become an armed guard. Ashraf and Mne, of the Western Cape Town Anti-Conviction Campaign, who, as teenagers, were on the frontlines in the fight against Apartheid, now man the frontlines of poverty, teaching nonviolent forms of protest and practical ways of surviving the current wave of evictions. Through their stories, we learn that the struggle in South Africa may go by a different name, but the stakes are just as high.

Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award Contender