What: 📅 RESONANCE ARCHIVE FESTIVAL: Dilemma (1962)
https://tickets.tixsa.co.za/event/resonance-archive-festival-Dilemma
When:
Where: 🎥 Bioscope
How much:
🎟️ R100.00Bioscope Ticket
Anaphora Films in association with The South Festival of Memory, present the
inaugural instalment of ‘Resonance Archive Festival’, taking place in
Johannesburg from August 27 - 31, 2025 bringing together filmmakers, artists,
academics, historians and cultural practitioners to reflect on the past,
question the present and shape future memory.
SEE THE FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM FOR THE BIOSCOPE HERE.
Dilemma, 1962
Dir: Henning Carlsen
Starring: Zakes Mokae, Ivan Jackson, Gideon Nxumalo
Runtime: 89 mins
Toby, a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a
publishing firm. He knows little about apartheid and so at first sees no
contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite, upper-class white
woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid. But as Toby makes
friends with a black South African (Zaku Mokae), and as he registers both the
subtle and more obvious, deep-seated racial prejudices of the minority white
population, some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn. That is
brought to a head when tragedy strikes.
Dilemma was shot clandestinely in Johannesburg. It is based on Nobel Prize
Winner Nadine Gordimer’s novel, A World of Strangers.