Story of a Beautiful CountrySouth Africa / Canada
2004, 73min.
 Dir.: Khalo Matabane, Dir of Phot.: Matthys Mocke, Compos.: Carlo Mombelli, Markus Wyatt, Edit: Vuyani Sondlo, Sound: President Kapa, Prod.: Don Edkins.
“In order to understand your country, you have to make a journey,” a South African proverb says. Ten years after the abolition of Apartheid, the filmmaker Khalo Matabane drives from his native village in the north to Cape Town in the south. It is a gorgeous country - everybody agrees on that. But the memories of Apartheid are still alive. | Matabane, Khalo Khalo Matabane
He is an award winning filmmaker whose films about South Africa have brought him both national and international interest. He has been invited to festivals around the world. He has given creative writing courses at the National Electronic and Media Institute of Southern Africa.
Filmograhy
Chikin Biznis (1995), Rhythms And Rights (1995), Poetic Conversations (1996), Two Still Decades (1996), The Waiters (1996), Mosadi O Tsawana Thira (1997), The Great Escape (1998), The Young Lions (1999), Love In Time Of Sickness (2001).
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