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Mother City 13 LPV
The film follows the activists over several years as they make one of the inner city’s abandoned spaces their home, and use it as a base from which to lobby for the needs of Cape Town’s working class. Beautifully observed, Mother City is a deeply human look at the politics of urbanism.
Screenings โ CT
Sunshine Cinema Sat 22 June 2:30 pm
Ster-Kinekor V&A 11 Sat 22 June 4.30pm + Panel
Vuma Tue 25 June 11am
Sunshine Cinema Fri 28 June 2pm
Labia 1 Sun 30 June 1.30pm
BerthaIsi Sun 30 June 3pm
Screenings โ JHB
Three decades after the end of apartheid, Cape Town remains one of the world’s most racially and economically segregated cities. As the documentary Mother City points out, not a single home to accommodate working-class people has been built in the inner city since 1994, and Cape Town remains very much an apartheid city. Against this backdrop, the Reclaim the City movement emerged; a collective of dispossessed people challenging the notion that Cape Townโand the world’s urban centresโare only for the rich. The film follows the activists over several years as they move into an abandoned former government building on the waterfront and make it their home as well as a base to lobby for the needs of the city’s poor and working class. Beautifully observed, the film is a riveting look at the politics of urbanism from a deeply human perspective.
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