What the Soil Remembers
7.2
In 1960s South Africa, a close-knit community from Die Vlakte was forcibly and violently uprooted to make way for the Stellenbosch University as part of the Apartheid regime’s segregation measures. José Cardoso’s What the Soil Remembers recounts the traumatic effect displacement had on residents by bringing to the foreground a university that is still grappling with its racist legacy. To this day, the Die Vlakte community is fighting for justice and seeking reparations with little to no tangible solutions.
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José Cardoso Director
First release January 27, 2023 · Produced in Ecuador, South Africa · Languages Afrikaans, English, Xhosa
Production
Ecuador · South Africa
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Afrikaans · English · Xhosa
Release dates
Netherlands · January 27, 2023
Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
No release date listed for United States.
Belgium
April 23, 2023 · Premiere · Leuven African Film Festival
Bulgaria
November 11, 2024 · Premiere · OKO International Etnographic Film Festival: Bulgarian Edition
Ukraine
September 14, 2024 · Premiere · OKO International Etnographic Film Festival: Ukrainian Edition
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