DIRECTOR: Georgina Warner & Imraan Christian | South Africa | 2014 | 14min
To push through the streets is the ultimate freedom. But what happens when the streets do not welcome you? Or get you killed? Scorning their government-built joke of a skate park which is too dangerous to use, the heroes of Jas Boude leave the Cape Flats ghetto – where Table Mountain remains mockingly out of reach – to infiltrate the CBD in search of a feeling and a power denied. Jaw-dropping cinematography and astute political conscience present a city which works for a few in this must-see short film.
Panel Discussion
Young Capetonians & Their City – Saturday 13 June 8pm Labia
How far can we say we’ve come, when our city centre remains accessible only to the few? When youth from the townships and Flats feel, are, isolated in the heart of what should be their home? In Ndi Vumeni: Faniswa and Jas Boude (screening in tandem) young women and men from Khayelitsha and Valhalla Park respectively take over the city – dancing and skating – their voices echoing on the stone-cold CBD streets. After the screening of their films, join the The Moving Stories dance group and the skaters of Jas Boude and the filmmakers who’ve captured their stories, in conversation with performance artist, Faniswa Yise, to discuss turning the Mother City into a space everyone call their own.