The Boers at the End of the World
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Directed by Richard Finn Gregory
In remote Patagonia, a 100-year-old community of Afrikaans Boers struggles to keep their language and culture alive, while longing to be reunited with their distant families in South Africa.
The story
In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to keep their culture alive. Patriarch "Ty" Dickason, 82, is a cowboy who has never flown in a plane - and yet he yearns to one day visit the country of his blood before he and his compatriots pass away. This multiple SAFTA award-winning documentary is a portrait of the last days of the community - a parallel world where Afrikaans was never linked to Apartheid - and one family's journey to reconnect with South Africa.
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- Producer
- Kelly Scott
- Director
- Richard Finn Gregory
- Director of Photography
- Richard Finn Gregory
- Editor
- Ronelle Loots
- Editor
- Richard Finn Gregory
- Original Music Composer
- Louis Nel
- Original Music Composer
- Rian Zietsman