The 13th European Film Festival South Africa is here. Over 10 days across 4 cities, audiences will have the opportunity to see some of the best films in current European cinema, fresh from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and beyond. Featuring award-winning films by giants of European cinema alongside bold new voices and starring Europe’s biggest names: this year’s films follow families of all kinds — biological, chosen, broken, rebuilding — fighting to hold together and carve out a future against everything working to pull them apart.
PROGRAMME
SUN 27 Sep 1pm: Young Mothers (Belgium) BOOK NOW. The multiple award-winning giants of social realism, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne paint a small, gritty and empathetic portrait of the struggles of young mothers. Abandoned by their families and society, these courageous and anxious young women support each other as they make the first of many tough adult decisions of their lives.
SUN 27 Sep 3:15pm: The Beloved (Spain) SOLD OUT!. Javier Bardem gives a compelling, quietly brooding performance in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s tightly wound psychological thriller, which unravels the fragile webs of relationships between fathers and daughters to ask difficult questions about the personal sacrifices made in the service of art and their emotional cost.
