Note: Witness to Apartheid will be repeated at 9:50, Admission $1.00.

Sharon Sopher Directs:
Witness to Apartheid
The South African regime knows well that the camera, especially the moving camera, is its enemy. Witness to Apartheid may achieve what all the newspaper articles we might read cannot, making us witness to the physical brutality that passes for government in South Africa. Specifically, this film is an urgent record, the likes of which we will not see on the
evening news, of the systematic torture and murder of children that has gone on, virtually undocumented, for years. American director Sharon Sopher conducts interviews with the inhabitants of the beleaguered townships, with whites pro and con, with torture victims, often at great risk to herself and her interviewees. She also talks at length to Bishop Desmond Tutu, whose bleak prognosis for the future is only reinforced by the record of continuing atrocities laid out here.
Directed by Sharon I. Sopher. Co-directed by Kevin Harris. Written by Sopher, Peter Kinoy. Photographed by Peter Tischhauser. (1986, 56 mins, Color, Print from California Newsreel)

Ross Devenish Directs
Athol Fugard's
Boesman and Lena
“(Boesman and Lena) courageously pares down a sociological drama into a textbook-perfect example of restrained screen realism. Not neorealism. Not stylish grittiness. But the austere, aesthetic constraints of genuine realism intermixed with a dramatic property already rich in psychological and socio-economic insights into the beggarly poor of the colonialized third world. (Athol) Fugard himself portrays the male, nihilistic side of an uprooted, coloured couple ejected from their shantytown and cast upon an arid mud flat. Yvonne Bryceland's Lena, the talker and visionist of the duet, completes the unglamorous portrait of the truly wretched of the earth. The native South African dialect may constitute a language barrier for those not familiar with the play, but it is an integral part of a desolate microcosm that expands in the back of the mind as a universal prophecy about the displaced of the 20th century.” Andrew Sarris, Tom Allen (Village Voice, 8/2/83)
Directed by Ross Devenish. Written by Athol Fugard from his play. Photographed by David Muir. With Yvonne Bryceland, Athol Fugard, Sandy Tube. (1973, 102 mins, Color, Print from New Yorker Films)