The Wooden Camera (2003)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Junior Singo	...	Madiba
	Dana de Agrella	...	Estelle
	Innocent Msimango	...	Sipho
	Lisa Petersen	...	Louise
	Nicholas Jara	...	Benny
	Lynita Crofford	...	TV Reporter
	Nomhlé Nkyonyeni	...	Servant (as Nomhle Nkonyeni)
	Thembi Mtshali	...	Madiba's Mother
	Jean-Pierre Cassel	...	Mr. Shawn
	Fats Bookholane	...	Madiba's Father
	Bo Petersen	...	Estelle's Mother
	Andre Jacobs	...	Estelle's Father

Storyline

Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Two kids, 14, Madiba and Sipho play along the railway. A train passes by. A dead man rolls to their feet. On him, they find a gun and a video camera. Sipho takes the gun and Madiba the camera. Their destiny is sealed. Benny, their friend makes a wooden camera and Madiba hides the video inside, in order to avoid embarrassing questions, racketing etc. He starts filming the township and its inhabitants. He discovers the strange beauty of his life's setting. Sipho, the boss, brings his friends to Cape-town, the white city, so close, so far, so exotic to the eyes of the children. While Sipho forms a gang with the street children and makes all kinds of illicit trading, Madiba films the town, its huge buildings, its business life, and its luxury. In a bookstore, he films a young white girl, stealing a book... Written by Olivier Delahaye  

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