The Mother’s House

South Africa, 2005, 76 min, Documentary

Directed by: Francois Verster
Language: English

Festivals & Awards: Winner of Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival, Apollo Film Festival, and Zimbabwe IF

The Mother’s House is a record of four years in the life of Miche, a charming, precocious yet troubled teenage girl growing into womanhood in post-Apartheid South Africa. Living with her mother and grandmother in Bonteheuwel, a Coloured township outside Cape Town, she has to face not only life in a community troubled by gangsterism and drug abuse, but also what it means to break the unbearable cycle of emotional and physical violence imprisoning her own family. The Mother's House gives a powerful insight into three generations of women striving to untie the knots that bind and to find peace and love amongst all the hurt and anger within their community and themselves.

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