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The 3rd SSAFF

Coming in May 2021

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Festival with a conscience
Education without Borders

Festival with a conscience
Education without Borders

Our commitment to supporting those most in need through Education without Borders has seen us adapt to the times and reinvent this year’s festival. All proceeds go to benefit Education without Borders.

Festival of Inclusive Trade

SSAFF is partnering with The Festival of Inclusive Trade. The festival focuses on 4 main groups, often excluded from the benefits of international trade: woman, youth, indigenous people and diaspora communities. Watch this space for talks and a free virtual screening of Liyana.

Festival Extras

Mindman Magic

Closing Ceremony

Mao’s Last Dancer / Beyond Moving

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

DJ Massaganda

Jesse Clegg

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@envirofilmfest presents: Out of This World - a th

@envirofilmfest presents: Out of This World - a thought-provoking online program running from Thursday 29 October - Sunday 8 November 2020.

Through a series of films, discussions and activities for the whole family where you can reimagine the future, and rethink our relationship with ecology, science, fiction, science fiction, film, and more broadly, the Earth. Head to effa.org.au for more info!
#EFFA2020

Funds raised from the last festival are already be

Funds raised from the last festival are already being well utilised as students are back at school and the EwB mentoring program is in full swing.

Reports have come from the Principal that students are enthusiastically participating.

#ssaffest #ewb #educationwithoutborders

Canadian South African Film Festival Online festiv

Canadian South African Film Festival Online festival: 1-12 November 2020.

Please tell your friends and relatives in Canada. They have a great line up including many of the films that we screened this year.

Vancouver South African Film Festival
www.vsaff.org/

We are partnering with @gtpalliance, an online eve

We are partnering with @gtpalliance, an online event which focuses on those with less equal access to the benefits of trade: Focusing on Gender, Youth, Indigenous people and Diaspora communities. We are delighted to be offering a free on-demand screening of @liyanafilm

www.gtpalliance.com/festival

#gtpalliance #ssaffest #liyanafilm

🎬 SSAFF is over for this year And as the sound

Final night of SSAFF on Demand! Last chance to cat

Final night of SSAFF on Demand! Last chance to catch any of our South African films you've missed. Happy watching 🎥🍿
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#ssaffest #onlinefilmfestival #southafricanfilm

This is the last weekend to watch our South Africa

This is the last weekend to watch our South Africa film selection! Back of the Moon is a perfect Saturday night movie. 🌙 A gritty period gangster tale and moving love story that takes place over a single night in 1958 in Sophiatown – the night before the entire community was forcibly removed by the apartheid regime to create the white only JHB suburb of Triomph (Triumph).

At the time Sophiatown was a melting pot of good and bad, with gangsters, intellectuals, musicians, journalists and anti-apartheid activists rubbing shoulders in shebeens or illegal drinking houses like Back of the Moon. The film explores this eclectic dynamic through the fictionalised relationship between Badman, a well read gang leader, and Eve, a singer reminiscent of Miriam Makeba, as Badman’s gang attempt to kill him and take over the gang.

Directed by Oscar Nominated film maker Angus Gibson, once criticised for his earlier documentary on Sophiatown, where he was accused of romanticising the situation and glossing over the violent truth of the gangster culture there, Back of the Moon is an accomplished return to this seminal time and place, to answer his critics.

Rent at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/backofthemoon

#backofthemoonmovie #ssaffest

Today we celebrate International Nelson Mandela Da

Today we celebrate International Nelson Mandela Day. Honouring his legacy and values. Inspiring us to take action inspire change. What difference can you make to your communities?

💡 Did you know! 🛶 Beyond the River is Inspi

💡 Did you know!

🛶 Beyond the River is Inspired by the true story of Siseko Ntondini and Piers Cruickshanks, whose unlikely pairing as canoeing partners saw them win gold in the gruelling internationally famous Dusi Canoe Marathon.

🤔This is a nail-biting and uplifting film that teases and pleases, as the protagonists struggle to bridge the divide between their vastly different worlds, and find a way to work together to achieve their shared dream – inside their canoe and beyond the river.

🎫Tickets: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/beyondtheriver

#southafricanfilm #ssaffest #onlinefilmfestival #beyondtheriver

Did you know that SSAFF On Demand is proudly partn

📽️🍿 Tonights film recommendation is Knuckl

📽️🍿 Tonights film recommendation is Knuckle City

🎬 Mdantsane township, where this film is set is where Mandela, himself a great boxer spent much time. 17 world champion boxers have come out of this place. Knuckle City tells a story about a professional boxer and the challenges his 2 sons face in growing up in the shadow of boxing and gangsterism.

🏆 Director Qubeka is world class, brilliant sound track and not for the fainthearted!

🎫 Tickets: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/knucklecity

#knucklecity #ssaffest #onlinefilmfestival #southafricanfilm #southafrica

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the passing

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the passing of Johnny Clegg. Beloved father, musician and national hero.

Sydney South African Film Festival honours Johnny Cleggs amazing vision of South Africa and the legacy and music you created in order to help all of us move towards a more united and harmonious country and world.

It is our hope that we can all stand up for what we believe in, and to always question what is right, especially in the face of adversity.

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