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Orania (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
South Africa ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Tobias Lindner

Written By:
Tobias Lindner

Actors:
Tobias Lindner

Synopsis:

In the town of Orania, 800 white Afrikaans people form an independent community. Their town is private property (bought in 1991) and they live independently from multi-cultural South Africa. Since the fall of Apartheid, increasing crime levels, unemployment and social pressure has led to a small migration of people towards the town. In the town, the residents concentrate on preserving their shared culture. Residents stay in the town for their cultural ideals or for the town's safety and opportunities, and others stay out of desperation.

Orania is a remote village in the barren centre of South Africa, an "intentional community" where only white Afrikaans people live - a culturally homogeneous place in a multicultural country. What lies beneath this peculiar societal experiment? A feature-length documentary about cultural identity and the thin line between self-determination and discrimination.

Orania is a 2012 German documentary film written and directed by Tobias Lindner. The film is an insight into the social experiment of the town of Orania, Northern Cape, an exclusively Afrikaner enclave in South Africa. The film explores cultural identity and the line between self-determination and discrimination.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 01 February, 2014.