The Bioscope is proud to once again host The Diversitas Film Festival. This is a unique film festival celebrating diversity in collaboration with the embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.
Tickets have been made FREE courtesy of all the embassies involved.
ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS SCREENED AT THE BIOSCOPE WILL HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have booked and no longer are able to attend, please email us on info@thebioscope.co.za so we can release the booking! If a screening becomes booked out, and you are looking to attend, please email us on the same address and we can advise on what can be possible.
PROGRAMME
FRI 6 Nov 6pm: PERU Presents: Islandia (Iceland) BOOK NOW. Set in the 1950s, the film follows Emilia, a young widow with two small daughters in Iquitos, who sails up the Amazon toward Islandia, a place she imagines as a promised land of new opportunities.
FRI 13 Nov 6pm: ARGENTINA Presents: Heroic Losers BOOK OVERFLOW SEATS NOW. In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.
SAT 14 Nov 1pm: COLOMBIA Presents: La Suprema BOOK OVERFLOW SEATS NOW. In a remote village erased from all maps and lacking electricity, a young girl dreams of becoming a boxer. When she discovers her uncle is fighting for a world title to be broadcast live on television, she and her forgotten community do everything in their power to watch the fight, staging a collective struggle against oblivion.
SAT 14 Nov 3pm: ECUADOR Presents: Misfit BOOK NOW. Misfit is a high school comedy about Julia, a girl who returns to Ecuador after living in the United States for several years.
SAT 21 Nov 4pm: BRAZIL Presents: Malês MORE SEATS TO BE RELEASED SOON!. On their wedding day, two young Muslims are torn from their African homeland and sold into slavery in Brazil. Cruelly separated by fate, they struggle to survive and find their way back to each other.
