Poppie Nongena

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Cinematographers' Debuts Competition

Cinematographer: Vicci Turpin

Director: Christiaan Olwagen

Producer: Helena Spring

Writer: Christiaan Olwagen

Production designer: Birrie Le Roux

Editor: Eva Du Preez

Cast: Clementine Zitha

Production Company: Poppie Productions (Pty) Ltd

Distribution company (world): Media Move

Year: 2019

Country: Republic of South Africa (RSA)

Time: 95

Date and place:

2020.11.18, 14:30virtual CKK Jordanki - Chamber Room

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In the 1970s, the Republic of South Africa was not a particularly friendly place for people of a skin colour other than white, though the apartheid had many faces. It was pure hell for some, while others learned to live with it and tried to build a better future for their children. Working as domestic help in a household of an affluent white family, Eunice ‘Poppie’ Nongena thinks she has found her place in this world of different limitations and prohibitions. Even if she cannot walk through ‘white streets’ after dusk, even if she lives in constant fear that someone will kill her on her way home, Poppie hopes for the best, but she is proven wrong. One day, she receives a government notice that she has to leave the country, as, according to a new definition of ‘a citizen’, she is an immigrant in her homeland. Thus, Poppie goes on a Kafkaesque journey of trying to appeal to the common sense of a variety of government officials and lawyers. While she tries to prove that she deserves to live freely in her country, the young generation goes to war with the white regime.

Cinematographers' Debuts Competition