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After appearances in film festivals around the world, The Bioscope is proud to host screenings of Sandulela Asanda’s debut feature Black Burns Fast. “The tender yet fierce coming-of-age story knowingly echoes the Hollywood high- school canon (Booksmart, Mean Girls, Bottoms) while staying rooted in a distinctly post-apartheid South African setting, tracing race, class and first love inside an institution still clinging to old hierarchies” - Deniz Sertkol (Critic, Curator and Co-Founder of The Long take Film Club).
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Directed by Sandulela Asanda. Teen Romance Coming-Of-Age. Dur 1hr 33mins. 13DLPS.
Adorkable and studious Luthando is on track for a normal academic year at the prestigious boarding school she attends on scholarship. The arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires which threaten her relationships and everything she thought she knew about herself.