Mother City

Presented in collaboration with Otherfield Film Festival
Introduced by documentary filmmaker Jerry Rothwell

Mother City is a cinematically beautiful and journalistically hard hitting story about an extraordinary group of activists in Cape Town, taking on property power in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid.

Organiser and activist, Nkosikhona Swartbooi tells this story with ruthless honesty as the Reclaim The Streets group struggle against government officials and property developers in one of the world’s most unequal cities.

The film exposes the deep fault lines still in existence after 30 years of democracy, where the government has failed to find solutions to the most urgent and explosive issue of land and ownership.

About Otherfield Film Festival
Otherfield is a Sussex based documentary festival dedicated to re-imagining the possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking. As documentaries on the larger streaming platforms become increasingly narrowly focused on celebrity and crime, Otherfield aims to create a window into other kinds of nonfiction filmmaking: films of unheard voices and places, personal films, films made or distributed in innovative or experimental ways. For the last three editions Otherfield has partnered with the Depot Cinema to bring films and filmmakers to the festival, which takes place in the first week of August.

Also screening at Depot as part of Otherfield:
Wednesday 18 March, 20:15: I’m Not Everything I Want To Be
Thursday 30 July, 20:15: Marching in the Dark