Orania, citadelle blanche en Afrique

  • Orania, citadelle blanche en Afrique
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 52 (in minutes)

Orania is a remote village in the barren centre of South Africa, an "intentional community" where only white Afrikaans people live - a culturally homogeneous place in a multicultural country. What lies beneath this peculiar societal experiment? A feature-length documentary about cultural identity and the thin line between self-determination and discrimination.

Best Documentary Feature Film (2. Jozi Film Festival)
Best feature-length Documentary (Dreamland Film Festival)
Best Film (5. ETNOFilm Festival)
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".. It is a thoughtful examination into the social experiment that is Orania. Beautifully shot, it is at times simultaneously humorous and disturbing." - Lisa Henry (Jozi Film Festival, Johannesburg)

".. It's refreshing to see a documentary that doesn't have an axe to grind, but even more so it's good to leave the cinema feeling as though your prejudices have been challenged in a very unexpected way. Surely that is the best result a documentary can hope for" - Dean Bowman (Raindance Film Festival)

".. Though he has all reason to, filmmaker Tobias Lindner never takes advantage of his subject's vulnerability and honesty but lets viewers make up their own mind entirely. That he has won the trust of the people of Orania is already quite remarkable but the stunning way in which he created this fly-on-the-wall portrait of a remarkable quirky and somewhat frightening town is something to applaud for." - Alexandra Zeevalkink (DocGeeks)

"It is as if the camera searches for the town's very soul and finds it,... delving under the skin of a people dislodged, yet strangely anchored by their beliefs, traditions, faith and determination, a sense of community binding them." - Martie Bester (Screen Africa)

Organizations

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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