Milisuthando

Director Milisuthando Bongela grew up in South Africa during apartheid, unaware that the country’s racist segregation policy existed. She was born in Transkei, a state formed for Black people in 1976. When apartheid ended in 1994, Transkei dissolved, leading Bongela to a reckoning with her place in society. Using archival and verité footage, along with personal interviews, Bongela constructs this personal essay about what it meant to grow up in Transkei during apartheid and her continuing process of coming to terms with the aftermath. In her poetic examination of her relationships with her friends, family, and even the film’s crew, she invites us into a realm of necessary questions for which there are no easy answers.