Flatland
South Africa / Germany / Luxembourg- 2019
Director: Jenna Bass
Screenplay: Jenna Bass
Runtime: 117’
Cast: Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout, De Klerk Oelofse, Eric Nobbs, Brendon Daniels, Clayton Evertson, Albert Pretorius, Kim Goncalves
Editing: Jacques de Villiers
Cinematography: Sarah Cunningham
Sound: Bao-Tran Tran “Mobilegirl”
Production: The Match Factory
Sales: The Match Factory GmbH, Sergi Steegmann info@matchfactory.de
Language: Afrikaans, English
Italian première
Synopsis:
To escape from her husband who raped her on her wedding night, Natalie commits a murder and flees on horseback with her milk sister Poppie in the wild and semi-desert Karoo. Beauty, a solitary policewoman, receives a request for help from Billy, the lost love of her life, who has been accused of murder. A journey into the discovery of the self, between Western and detective film, of these three women, so different from one another but all equally desperate, in a South Africa which is still deeply patriarchal and racist.