Sunshine Cinema in partnership with the UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies will present five locally made films. Bring the family, come and relax and enjoy some home-grown movie brilliance. Kids movie options will be available also.

Time Film screening Location
15:30 – 17:00

'Zambezia' film screening (1 hour 20 min)

A Sunshine Cinema kids films screening session

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18:00 – 18:10 Introducing Sunshine Cinema
Sydell Willow Smith, co-founder amd Executive Director		 LT1
18:15 – 20:00 ‘Mother City’ film screening (1 hour 40mins)
Q&A with filmakers Miki Redelinghuys and Nkosikhona Swartbooi.		 LT1
18:10 – 19:15 UCT’s Centre for Film & Media Studies screen production - Top Picks 2023:
  • Introducing the student films: Julia Cain, CFMS
  • ‘Boomerang’ a third -year screen production 2023; SAFTA nominee (12 min)
  • ‘Kantget’ a third Year fiction Film (16 min)
  • Q&A with film-makers, moderated by Kwenzo Khoza (Sunshine Cinema)
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18:10 – 20:30

‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ (2 hours) Age restriction 16 years

Twenty years ago, the young ‘Five Fingers’ fought for the rural town of Marseilles, against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, freedom-fighter-turned-‘outlaw’ Tau returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful pastoral life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it. Will the Five Fingers ride again?

‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ fuses western influences, from classic Ford-era through Spaghetti and revisionist eras, into a contemporary South African crime drama played in local tongue. The great westerns have always contained socio-political threads, and Five Fingers’ loose allegory on current South African politics is deep, dark, edge-of-the-seat, and starkly human.

Q&A with Sean Drummond (UCT alumnus) and cast members

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