Murmures

FESTIVAL OF SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT FILMS IN STELLENBOSCH

Cinemagoers with a taste for homegrown quality are in for a treat when
some
of the finest local products will be on show at the first festival of
South
African short films in Stellenbosch, to be held from 14-17 March. The
festival, SA Shorts @ Stellenbosch, will be presented by the Film
Resource
Unit and M-Net in collaboration with the Minimax cinema and the
Stellenbosch
Film Forum and will include some brand new short films as well as a
selection of other recent releases. Highlights of the festival are three
new
shorts commissioned by M-Net as part of the Edit project, namely Drink
in
the Passage, Waiting for Valdez and Ubuntu's Wounds. Short films will be

screened in three groups, with a total duration of approximately 100
minutes
per show.
To link with the short film festival, the Minimax theatre will also show
a
selection of feature length films by African directors in an adjacent
cinema
for the duration of the festival. A fine selection of African films like

Lumumba (Congo), Hyena's, Touki Bouki (Senegal) and Summer at La
Goulette
(Tunisia), will also be showcased. There will also be opportunities to
meet
some of the filmmakers, and in a student workshop seminar a director
will
share some of the secrets of the trade. Other activities and events
include
panel discussions of the films and special screenings for
schoolchildren.
Tickets will cost only R15 for adults and R10 for pupils, students and
pensioners. A special pass will also be available at R30 which will
grant
unlimited access to all the films shown.
More detail about the programme will be released shortly.
For further information and bookings, call Minimax Cinema, (021) 887
2702