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Encounters Film Festival 2012 - The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival starts in JHB and CT on 7 -24 June and promises to showcase the most compelling documentaries from around the world.
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Alekazam - Famous fathers are never easy to carry around, but when yours is as iconic as Hugh Masekela, the burden is heavy indeed. It’s this weight that has made Selema Masekela wait 39 years to accept that he has a voice of his own.
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You Laugh But It's True - In this documentary we meet Trevor Noah as he is about to step onto the stage for his first ever comedy show. We also get to meet him as he visits his mother and grandmother in Soweto.
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African Cypher - The film follows township crews from the Cape Flats to Mamelodi and beyond as they rehearse ahead of the Red Bull Beat Battle.
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Anne Frank Remembered - She is perhaps Hitler’s most famous victim but what was Anne Frank really like? Using archive footage and contemporary interviews with people who knew her, this Academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the girl behind the myth.
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Breath Again - Orderson's film about his uncle, gifted 1980s swimmer Derek Orderson, is both homage and history lesson.
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Call Me Kuchu - Activist David Kato returns from South Africa a liberated man and sets about campaigning for gay rights only to be murdered.
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Cant Just Fold Your Arms - Sonke Gender Justice Network's film follows three high-profile activists as they spearhead the One Man Can initiative across the land and challenge men to reassess their attitudes.
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Dancing WithThe Devil - This gripping film takes place in Rio de Janeiro's notorious slums and offers an intimate look at one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth.
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Dying To Tell A Story - The feature length first episode of the 2004 TV series on the history of war reporting.
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Fire In The Blood - This revealing film looks at the controversy surrounding the distribution of HIV/AIDS medication.
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Healers - This is the feel-good story of how a doctor and a matron at a rural South African hospital started a ground-breaking scholarship programme to enable local youth to qualify as healthcare professionals.
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The Island President - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the recent victim of a coup, reveals what climate change means for his country.
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The Cut - Confronting female circumcision, filmmaker Magoko heads to rural East Africa to understand the various traditional ceremonies and the efforts to eradicate them.
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Saying Goodbye - This film tells the story of a UWC biotechnology professor, Sean Davidson, who helped his mother to end the misery induced by terminal cancer.
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Mandisa - A deceptively simple film made with care and grace that goes to the heart of what victims of sexual crime go through.
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Ithemba - The film presents the journey of Zimbabwe's most unlikely Afro-fusion band, Liyana. Consisting of eight physically challenged, irrepressibly funny and talented musicians.
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A Common Purpose - Memory, friendship and the madness of Apartheid come under the microscope in Mitzi Goldman's film about the so-called Upington 25, a group of people collectively charged with the murder of a black policeman under the notorious 'common purpose' law.
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Face The Music - Gangster Larry Joe's soulful voice inspires Freshlyground member Aron Turest-Swartz to organise a recording sessions in his prison cell.
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Pink Ribbons, Inc - This deeply troubling exposé reveals the unhealthy relationship between the Pink Ribbon Movement and the corporates and asks why the money raised has contributed little towards finding a cause or cure for breast cancer.
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Garden of My Ancestors - A young black women returns to her roots to understand her past and reconnect with her culture.
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Saving Rhino - Slater-Jones's film tells the tragic story of a young rhino called Phila exposed to a world of organised crime, toothless legislation and a few dedicated people willing to do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of rhinos..
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