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A Daring Urban Revolution in a City Breathtakingly Beautiful and Brutal
Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town – a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid 30 years into democracy. The story begins when the government sells a school, meant for affordable housing, to a private developer. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, this intimate and at times funny narrative documentary charts Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi leading a defiant war against government and property developers – on the streets, in the supreme court and in parliament.Read moreLess
Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town – a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid 30 years into democracy. The story begins when the government sells a school, meant for affordable housing, to a private developer. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, this intimate and at times funny narrative documentary charts Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi leading a defiant war against government and property developers – on the streets, in the supreme court and in parliament.
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Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town – a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid 30 years into democracy. The story begins when the government sells a school, meant for affordable housing, to a private developer. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, this intimate and at times funny narrative documentary charts Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi leading a defiant war against government and property developers – on the streets, in the supreme court and in parliament.
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- Director
- Miki Redelinghuys
- Director
- Pearlie Joubert
- Producer
- Zikethiwe Ngcobo
- Producer
- Pearlie Joubert
- Producer
- Miki Redelinghuys
- Director of Photography
- Miki Redelinghuys
- Director of Photography
- Zacharia Mashele
- Director of Photography
- Pearlie Joubert
- Director of Photography
- Tim Wege
- Editor
- Khalid Shamis
- Original Music Composer
- Charl-Johan Lingefelder
- Original Music Composer
- Edward George King