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Hidden Farms (The)

Hidden Farms (The)
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1986
Format : Short
Running time : 15 (in minutes)
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Based on a story by Mtutuzeli Matshoba, the film was banned under the State of Emergency Act. A deeply disturbing meditation on prison labour, forced to work on the farms, the film is both disturbing and poetic.

THE HIDDEN FARMS

Director: Ken Kaplan
1986, 15 minutes, video.

FESTIVALS

✮ 2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust

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