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MILISUTHANDO
Milisuthando Bongela South Africa 2023 English English Xhosa with English English subtitles 128 min
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JULY 17:15 SUNCOAST 8 28 JULY 17:00 SUNCOAST 7 7 Set in
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past and and present South Africa Milisuthando is is a a a a a a a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary on on love and what it means to become human in
the context of race explored through the the memories of Milisuthando who grew up during Apartheid but didn’t know it it was was happening until it it was was over The story braids together three different worlds – the the now defunct Republic of Transkei East London in
the the 1990s new South Africa and her adult life in
in
in
in
Johannesburg Spanning 30 years in
in
in
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a a a a a a a a a non-linear manner the film is a a a a a a a meditation on on on difficult questions about power fear intimacy and love as it relates to to race A roving feminine lens takes the the the viewer into the the the interiors of the the the new South Africa and its its relationship with its its past In 1928 Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando the the first novel in
in
in
which the the main character changes sex in
the the middle of the the story A century later trans writer and activist Paul B Preciado decides to to send a a a a a film letter to to Virginia Woolf Her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is is living a a a a a a a a life she could have never imagined Preciado organises a a a a a a a a casting and and gathers 26 contemporary trans and and non-binary people from eight to 70 years old who embody Orlando Augusto and and Paulina have been together and and in
in
love for 25 years years Eight years years ago their lives were forever changed by Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters Augusto is is no stranger to to to building an archive of memory Now he turns that work to to his own life trying to to hold on to his his identity with the help of his his beloved Paulina whose own pre-eminence as a a a a a a a famous actress and Chilean Minister of Culture predates her ceaselessly inventive manner of engaging with her husband Day by day the couple face this challenge head- on on on relying on on on the the tender affection and sense of humour shared between them that remains remarkably and fully intact ORLANDO MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Paul B Preciado France 2023 French with English subtitles 98 min
26 JULY 17:00 SUNCOAST 8 29 JULY 12:15 SUNCOAST 7 THE ETERNAL MEMORY
Maite Alberdi Chile 2023 Spanish with English subtitles 84 min
21 JULY 18:15 SUNCOAST 7 30 JULY 16:45 SUNCOAST 8 44TH DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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