Extra Screenings
Due to popular demand, we have added extra screenings for the following films: Kedi, Goldblatt, Deep Blue/Middle C, Winnie, and I am not your Negro.
Whose Streets? directors to engage with youth
Join Whose Streets? directors Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan as they present a workshop on how citizen journalism and activism from the ground up can change attitudes and spark movements.
Last Men in Aleppo, Firas Fayyad will not be joining Encounters this year
Encounters has just had confirmation that Last Men in Aleppo director, Firas Fayyad will no longer be joining the Festival this year.
Award winning Kenyan artist and filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii in conversation about VR
Award-winning filmmaker, animator and photographer Ng’endo Mukii, in conversation with New Dimensions series producer Steven Markovitz, about the driving forces behind her film Nairobi Berries, how Virtual Reality can open up a whole new world of storytelling possibilities for filmmakers and the present VR landscape in Africa.
Encounters Industry Events Day in Johannesburg announced
Encounters, in partnership with the Goethe Institut, will be hosting an industry events day in Johannesburg. The event is free and the Festival encourages filmmakers, industry and students to attend
Panelists for Black Filmmakers Forum are now confirmed
Encounters is thrilled to announce the panelists for the Black Filmmakers Forum discussion: Sylvia Vollenhoven, Vuyokazi Matu and Weeam Williams will be in conversation about the role of broadcasters and how their support or lack thereof affects us on a local and international level.
Strong Island director, Yance Ford to join Encounters
Encounters is thrilled to welcome Strong Island director, Yance Ford, to the Festival this year. Strong Island, a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize Winner for Storytelling, is a timely and intelligent work and a painful intersection of private tragedy and public and political intransigence. Ford will be in attendance at the screening on the 6th June to present his film.
Encounters guest director, Jan Gassmann, to engage with film students
Visiting Encounters guest director, Jan Gassmann, will conduct a master class at the University of Cape Town entitled “Working on the frontier: In between fiction and non-fiction”.
New Guest: Geoff Arbourne, producer of Forever Pure
Geoff Arbourne, producer of Forever Pure, will be present at all post-screening Q+A’s of the film in Cape Town.
Exciting new local addition to the VR section!
Eziko is a virtual reality web-series, each episode inviting you into the living rooms, dinner tables and personal spaces where conversations are happening between South African womxn. Episodes 1 & 2 follow a group of friends on holiday in Paternoster, where debates range from relationships to land politics over the course of one day.
New guests confirmed
Encounters is thrilled to announce that Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, filmmakers of the acclaimed documentary Whose Streets? will now be joining the Festival on the opening weekend. Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’s exceptional documentary, which premiered at Sundance, follows the story of how the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and later sparked a global movement.
