House of love

by Cecil Moller

Running time: 26 min

Production year: 2001

Directed by : Cecil Moller

Cinematography : Craig Mathews

Sound : David Benade

Editor : Jesper Osmund, Regine Sneider, Volker Bucholz

Music : Nick Harris

Production : Nifa Productions, Steps for the Future

Distribution : Dominant 7

Collection « Steps for the future »

Trapped between sea and desert under a sky of molten lead, the port of Welvis Bay in Namibia is an open prison for a small community of women forced to prostitute themselves for a living. Isolated, dependent, awaiting the few sailors passing through, AIDS is all they have to look forward to. Discreetly, Cecil Moller records statements of the experience of these women, their own stories, their daily combat and their hopes for redemption, supported by religious movements that preach their rehabilitation.

Wa N’wina

by Dumisani Phakathi

Prix spécial du jury - Festival d’Ismailia Egypte 2002

Running time: 52 min

Production year: 2001

Directed by : Dumisani Phakathi

Cinematography : Dumisani Phakathi, Matthys Mocke

Editor : Vuyani Sondlo

Production : Day Zero Film and Video, Steps for the Future, avec le soutien du CNC

Distribution : Dominant 7

“I am told that in my generation, one out of every two people will be affected by the virus before the age of 30”: Dumisani Phakathi returns to his township to try to understand how people live there in the era of AIDS. Using a handheld camera, moving from encounter to encounter, he talks to rediscovered childhood friends, getting them to talk in a vivid, incisive style. “Wa N’wina is a love letter from me to my street and the inhabitants of Soweto. In the midst of the surrounding sense of catastrophe, this is my way of declaring that people are more than just sta-tistics. It is also an affirmation of the determination to survive together in the face of AIDS”.