Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon

D: Khalo Matabane, South Africa 2005, 80 min, Engl. subtitles

An impressive debate on the effects of war and expulsion, in which the boundaries between fiction and documentary are deliberately blurred. Keniloe, a young poet in Johannesburg, strikes up a conversation in the park with Fatima, who has fled the atrocities in Somalia. He decides to use her experiences as the basis for a book. Suddenly, however, she disappears. Equipped with a video-recorder, Keniloe sets off to find her.