Date: 4 November
Film: Born Into Struggle
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Javett-UP Auditorium
Join us for November's First Friday Film Club. Our guest this month is Rehad Desai, now an established and award-winning filmmaker in his own right. Then a young man comes to grips with how exile changed his family. First released in 2004, this auto-biographical documentary; takes us on an intimate journey mapped out by the scars etched into his family’s life from having a family who was intensely involved in politics. Barney Desai was a political hero during South Africa’s struggle for freedom, yet as a father, he was damagingly absent emotionally.
Rehad spent most of his young life in exile and became politically active. However, on this intensely personal journey into his past, Rehad realises he may be following in his father’s footsteps as he reviews his relationship with his estranged teenage son.