The Story of a Beautiful Country | Encounters Mega Archive/Library
Feature
African

2004

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Matabane returns to South Africa intrigued by the beliefs, attitudes, religions, and personalities that make up the people of the “rainbow nation”. Exploring the length and breadth of this vast, beautiful land, he seeks out the “ordinary” South African, intent on discovering just what being South African means, and what changes the last ten years have wrought. He shows no discrimination, interviewing black cellphone-wielding yuppies, a proud coloured girl, a gun-toting member of the Boeremag, teenagers, sax players, and a hip, talkative mixed couple. He stipulates one extraordinary restriction: they can say anything as long as they are interviewed in the back of a moving combi. This intriguing device celebrates the dynamic beauty and diversity of our people as reflected in our panoramic, constantly changing and spectacular countryside.

Courtesy of Day Zero Productions.

Guests

Director: Khalo Matabane