Film Mondays at AFDA started on Monday 6 February. Please see all the films lined up for screening in February. All are welcome and entrance is FREE!
Monday Screenings Programme, February 2023
13.02.2023, 17:30, When We Were Kings – Leon Gast, 1996
When We Were Kings is a documentary depicting the World Heavyweight Championship held in Zaire (now D.R. Congo) in 1974 between George Foreman and Mohammed Ali. The film is the result of a 22-year labour of passion. It is an 89-minute Brut de Force
20.02.2023, 17:30, The Fragile King – Tristan Holmes, 2020
The Fragile King tells the story of an older white man, Gerald King (Andrew Buckland), who is closer to death than life who gets dumped with his 15 -year-old grandson (Alex de la Rey), when the child’s mother (Antoinette Louw) dies in a drunken car crash.
27.02.2023, 17:30, A Letter to my Cousin in China – Henion Han, 1999
A Letter to my Cousin in China is an intensely personal and deeply moving account of one family’s history. It is the universal immigrant’s story about a lifelong search for home, and one man’s personal realization of what home means to him. A Letter to my Cousin in China is a documentary, 20 years in the making
Lecture Theatre 1, AFDA Johannesburg, 41 Frost Avenue, Braamfontein Werft
Ample, safe on campus parking. Limited seating, please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
With special thanks to Goethe-Institut, SACOMM and AFDA