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MM.	BET to air film festival titled BET Script to Screen: AFDA Edition - with 50 movies by 3rd and 4th year AFDA students from the classes of 2016 to 2021. The only snag: they're airing at 07h00 in the morning - when everyone's glued to their TVs. NOT. Premieres Monday 11 December. Mondays to Fridays.

TVSA Team
06 Dec 2023 16:28

The timeslot is an hour long.

Some titles:

Hlongoma Peak

Directed and written by: Luke Ahrens

Synopsis: Cebo, Chris and Thami were inseparable growing up - best friends, a bond stronger than brothers.

After Thami’s suicide, the now estranged Cebo and Chris reunite to honour their late friend’s final wishes - travel to Hlogoma Peak, in the heart of the Drakensberg.

This is where the trio shared their fondest memories together… and where Thami took his final bow… off a cliff.

It’s an unusual request, to visit the place of Thami’s suicide, but beyond the pain there is joy; there is rebirth.

Bear

Directed and written by: Wesley Roodt

Synopsis: After leaving his mother and childhood home in a Xhosa township behind, Siya, a precocious but frightened schoolboy rugby prodigy, must find a sense of belonging while attending a prestigious English-language boys' school in the city.

Liminal

Directed and written by: Tiffani Joy

Liminal explores the way in which mixed race individuals challenge society’s notion of race as they cannot be easily placed into any pre-existing racial categories.

Given how the concept of race continues to be categorized within South Africa, individuals who are of mixed race heritage have been assigned their own racial classification of ‘colored’ which was formalized during the aparthied legislation.

Towards the end of the apartheid era, a new generation of mixed race children emerged, an opportune representation of South Africa’s rainbow nation.

However, post-racial children have instead exposed the gap within conversations about race within South Africa where most mixed race individuals struggle to comprehend their mixed identities and intersections within a hyper-racialized country which also ironically denies the differences of their racial identity in race-conscious dialogues.

Also:

- A Measure of Distance

- Aluta Continua

- Axel

- Bismillah

- Crush

- Doreen

- Ekhaya

- Homecoming

- I Ship It

- Lefa

- Mandlakhe

- Manyano

- Menu

- Notorious

- Quiet On Set

- Republik

- Simply Ben

- Spina Daai Deng

- Sunset Exodus

- The House my Grandfather Built

- The Professional

- The Spirit of Christmas

- Thulile

- Ubuntu Bot

- Umngeno

- You, Me & Everything In Between

- Zomile Inyembezi