Screen/Society--African Film Festival--"White Wedding"

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:45pm
Screen/Society--African Film Festival--"White Wedding"

Film Screening:

White Wedding

(Jann Turner, 2009, 93 min, South Africa, in Zulu, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Discussion to follow

It's modern day South Africa and in Cape Town the beautiful Ayanda (Zandile Msutwana) is just days away from achieving her lifelong dream: the perfect white wedding. The only problem is that her husband-to-be, the loyal, committed Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi) is 1800 kilometres away in Johannesburg. He sets off on Tuesday night by bus to Durban intending to connect with his childhood friend and best-man Tumi (Rapulana Seiphemo). But the plans start to go awry when Tumi doesn't show up at the bus station. Not an auspicious beginning, but this is just the first in many comic and illuminating misadventures they meet along the way. In the end, the two lovers learn that celebrating their union is more about the journey than getting to the church on time.

 "[A] pleasant, intentionally lightweight, South African road-movie romance with a sly integrationist political agenda."-- Boston Phoenix

 

Cost: Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsors: The Africa Initiative, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Department of Cultural Anthropology, and the Department of African and African American Studies.

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)