Mother City: a tough, passionate film about affordable housing in Cape Town

30 June 2024 - 00:00 By Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies

A third of the way into Mother City (https://encounters.co.za/film/mother-city/) there’s a scene that characterises this tough, passionate film about Cape Town and its paradoxes of beauty and hardship, wealth and poverty, and the way it excludes the working poor...

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