After two years of online streaming during Covid the 9th European Film Festival in South Africa this year provides a much-anticipated return to theatres for those who desire the full cinema experience on the big screen. The festival presents a select curation of 16 multi-award winning films from Europe that have not yet been released in South Africa. Between 13 to 23 October each film will have a single screening at Ster-Kinekor’s The Zone in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and a single screening at The Labia in The Gardens, Cape Town.
Festival co-director Magdalene Reddy notes: “Cinemas countrywide have endured sustained periods of closure and crippling seating restrictions during Covid times. As film lovers we are grateful they survived and are fully functioning again. While the festival celebrates films and the making of films, we also honour the theatres that bring these films to life for us – please support your local cinemas, enjoy the festival films on the big screen!”
Tickets are R80 at The Zone and R70 at The Labia – visit https://www.eurofilmfest.co.za/2022-home/screenings/ to book.
For those unable to get to the cinemas this year’s hybrid model also allows for watching the films in the comfort of one’s own home via the online streaming service which is free.
For film synopses, screening schedules and festival info visit www.eurofilmfest.co.za
The European Film Festival 2022 is a partnership project of the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa and 14 European embassies and national cultural institutes in South Africa: the embassies of Austria, Belgium, Georgia, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the British Council, Instituto Camoes (Portugal), French Institute of South Africa, Goethe-Institut, Italian Cultural Institute and Wallonie-Bruxelles International. The festival is organised in cooperation with Cineuropa, Ster Kinekor and the Labia and is coordinated by Creative WorkZone.
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