Meanwhile in Mamelodi
The World Cup in a Pretoria township and the life of an ordinary family: the struggle for survival, teenager problems, business, stress at school and – vuvuzelas.
2011 | 75m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Benjamin Kahlmeyer |
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| Set against the raucous backdrop of the 2010 World Cup, MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI is a beautifully crafted portrait of a place and one family’s daily life inside it. The Mtsweni family lives in the Pretoria Township of the title, in the district known as Extension 11. Their world is a ramshackle collection of corrugated tin dwellings and makeshift shops, open sewers littered with debris and red-earth rectangles filled with soccer-playing children and teens. Seventeen-year-old Mosquito is one of those kids. As she studies for math tests, flirts with boys and shops with her best friend, her father Steven prepares his "tuck shop" for the promise of cash-flush tourists. Meanwhile, his wife struggles with mental illness. The Mtswenis' lives unfold as the Cup brings new hope to the ravaged town. Despite the poverty around her, Mosquito insists this is not her parents' country. She is the face of South Africa's future - part of "a new generation free to do all things." | |
| Release Date: | Oct 18, 2011 |
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| Director: | Benjamin Kahlmeyer |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | world cup, south africa, township, football (soccer) |
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| Name | Job |
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| John Gürtler | Music |
| Michael Kaczmarek | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Jan Miserre | Music |
| Benjamin Kahlmeyer | Director |
| Stefan Neuberger | Director of Photography |
| Jonathan Schorr | Sound mixer |
| Benjamin Entrup | Editor |
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| Boris Frank | Producer |
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