Every year since our founding in 2010, The Bioscope has proudly hosted screenings of The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Now over 25 years old as a festival, Encounters returns to The Bioscope once again with screenings from 21 June – 30 July. Tickets are R80. For more information on the festival as a whole, please visit: encounters.co.za
BOOKING ESSENTIAL!
PROGRAMME
SUN 30 June 12pm: BLACK PEOPLE DON’T GET DEPRESSED (additional screening) SOLD OUT!
SUN 30 June 1:30pm: OUR LAND, OUR FREEDOM (with Q&A) BOOK NOW The film follows a Kenyan woman looking for her fathers’ remains, but finds herself swept up by the struggles of her people and their desire to reclaim their ancestral land.
SUN 30 June 4pm: AL DJANAT, THE ORIGINAL PARADISE BOOK NOW Upon the passing of her uncle during his pilgrimage to Mecca, director Chloé Aïcha Boro returns to her home country of Burkina Faso to document the familial disputes surrounding the inheritance of his Coulibaly estate.
