DIRECTOR: Heinrich Dahms | Netherlands / South Africa | 2015 | 93min
Young Steven Figaji is dead: depending on who you speak to, drowned during his arrest for poaching the coastline’s endangered perlemoen, or killed by the police, another casualty in the town of Hawston’s ongoing saga of fishermen vs the Law. Because, with fishing quotas drastically cut, Hawstoners must play a dangerous game to survive. Family man, Sherman Pharo (who films the heart-pounding underwater footage) sees no way out, nor does Ellen who lives with her tik-addict beloved, Staggie. All the while, the Figaji family stubbornly mourns their lost son. Like the calm of an evening tides, Between The Devil and The Deep deceptively pulls us into dangerous waters, where sorrow and despair churn into rage – a sea shanty harmonising the shared unpredictibilities of nature and mankind.
Screenings at Encounters 2015
CT: Sat 6 8pm Labia | Sat 13 8pm CN V A Q A
Jozi: Sat 6 5.30pm Bio