By Popular Demand: Additional Screenings at Encounters
Due to popular demand, the organisers of Encounters are delighted to announce additional screenings to the Festival line-up.
- Francois Verster’s Sea Point Days has been well received by the public, selling out both screenings on the first weekend. The new screening of Sea Point Days is scheduled for Saturday 18th July, 2:30pm at Cine 9.
- Fokofpolisiekar “Forgive them for they know not what they do”, directed by Brian Little, received an overwhelming response with all four screenings sold out before the Festival opened to the public. An additional screening is schedule for Friday 17th, 10:30pm at Cine 9 and Sun 10.30pm, Cine 2.
Encounters in partnership with the Alliance Française du Cap present the special screening of HOME.
Home
France
112 mins Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Celebrated photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a specialist in aerial photography. His book Earth From Above (1994, which began as a study on the state of Earth for UNESCO) has been translated into 24 languages and has sold millions of copies. For anyone who has seen his photographs and wished they could have been in his balloon with him, Home is mandatory viewing. Premiered last month simultaneously on DVD, the web and in European cinemas, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s visually stunning film about the inter-connectedness of Earth’s diversity, biomes (and problems) is shot extensively from the air. It literally gives his audience a bird’s eye view of what we have created and why fixing problems of overuse, greed and ecological ignorance in isolation is not going to help the planet in the long run. Glenn Close narrates but all attention is on the visuals, which take in an astounding variety of landscapes and geographical formations to illustrate a record of our evolving world. To do justice to the film it will be screened on 35mm.
35mm print delivered courtesy of the French Embassy
Screens: Sat 18 / 7.45pm | Sun 19 / 7pm (sold out)
See booking details to purchase a ticket.