Richard Gregory has finally finished The Boers At The End Of The World, which has long been the most anticipated South African documentary on my horizon. To celebrate, we have a new poster and trailer for the feature!
The Boers At The End Of The World is the incredible story of a remnant Afrikaner population in Patagonia, Argentina; descendants of a few hundred Boers who chose self-imposed exile from their native South Africa rather than live under British rule.
I previously heaped praise on the short film from which this feature is borne, The Last Boers Of Patagonia, which premiered at the 2014 Durban International Film Festival. The story is fascinating on many intellectual levels - historical, cultural, linguistic - but it is the mesmerizing characters and sumptuous cinematography which hold me most in thrall.
The film just premiered at Silwerskermfees, South Africa's biggest Afrikaans film festival, and is nominated for Original Music, Editing, Cinematography and Audience Choice awards.
This one will be good for head and heart, I think.