Manenberg

Synopsis: MANENBERG is the debut documentary film by directors and anthropologists Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium, who have lived and done extensive research in Manenberg a suburb outside Cape Town - since 2005. The film is a coming-of-age story about two young ‘Cape Coloureds’ struggling to make sense in the ruins of a post-apartheid South African township. Manenberg was constructed during the apartheid regime to house coloured families with low incomes. Today it is a worn-down and overpopulated ghetto with enormous social problems but it is also an area with strong ties between the inhabitants. Based on five years of ongoing anthropological research in the area, the film invites the audience behind the headlines and into the lives of Warren and Fazline and their families. It is an intimate film about coming of age amidst difficult surroundings, about families, life and its conflicts.
Language: Afrikaans
Country: Denmark
Year of release: 2010
Notes: English subtitles
Subjects: Anthropology; Social sciences
Keywords: apartheid; poverty; social anthropology; social problems; South Africa; townships

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