Filmmaker's tale of racial encounter in SA suburbia makes its debut on world stage

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Twenty-five year old Teboho Malebogo, has been chosen to show his short film, Mthunzi, at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in August.

Nala Khumalo plays Mthunzi, a young black man who inadvertently finds himself embroiled in a racial encounter.A random encounter that highlighted everyday racial tensions has catapulted a young South African filmmaker to international prominence., at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in August.He saw a woman who had fainted in her doorway. When he went to help, one of the woman's relatives demanded to know what he, a black man, was doing there.

“We are all just expected to live in harmony, but there are many micro-aggressions and little nuances that find their ways into that daily life, and when this incident happened to me, I wondered to myself, 'how can I explore this using film?'.“I am just interested in exploring a modern South Africa, where people of different races live in the same areas, and what that looks like.

 

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