The Bridge was made for an omnibus project organised by the Encounters Film Festival in South Africa. Filmmakers were asked to record life around them. For this filmmaker, that was the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. We peer out from his window.
Also in this combined programme
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Flies.
An older man lives alone in a deserted apartment complex. He unintentionally witnesses a murder after which the killers end his loneliness. Charact
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Square Stories Too
Basically three films rolled into one. Various, jump-cut images depict life and work on Addis Ababa’s central square. A contemporary triptych
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Epicura
Moody, night-time walks that don’t always seem to have a purpose. In Brazzaville there is always something up. Melancholy wanderers.
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Excuse Me, While I Disappear
A Chinese city in Africa. Innumerable square metres in exchange for oil. An employee is followed around the scarcely inhabited city. Until he disap
Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- File
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