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From 1 -3 August, The Bioscope is proud to present a special selection of films from this year’s Durban International Film Festival.
ALL OTHER SCREENINGS WILL BE LISTED HERE
THE HOME
by Jessie Zinn | 73 min
The Home weighs in as a good-humored portrait on the oldest and largest Jewish homes in South Africa as its clients kvetch about companions and battle to elect a new Resident Committee. The residents are attended - with notable affection - by carers who are mostly Xhosa-speaking Black women working on minimum wages. “The Home” works as a gentle observational comedy. But it’s also a record of a microcosmos of South Africa today, where a legacy of racial and economic segregation still lingers.