Eco Film Fest: Kayabike + Cycologic (Double-Bill)

The South African Eco Film Festival returns to The Bioscope in 2017.

The film festival’s mission is simply to raise awareness, through the amazing medium of documentary film, of the many pressing environmental issues the planet is facing, and the solutions people are taking to solve them. We hope you will be informed, inspired, challenged, uplifted and entertained by this year’s Festival offerings.

The South African Eco Film Festival is a project of While You Were Sleeping, a non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing documentary films that both entertain and inform with important environmental, social and political messages to South African audiences.

For more info go to: http://saecofilmfestival.com/

CYCLOLOGIC (15 mins, Sweden/Uganda 2016)

Traveling the streets of Kampala by bike is exhausting and dangerous. Chaotic and dangerous traffic, endless queues, pollution, motorcyclists and cars attacking you from every angle. Politicians seem to have given up on finding a solution. But there are a few people who strive to show that there are alternatives. Urban planner Amanda Ngabirano's biggest dream is to have a cycling lane in her city. An impossible task according to many.

Not according to Amanda.

KAYABIKE (45 mins, South Africa 2016)

The life of a kids and their BMX coach training in a South African township (Kayamandi), waiting for competition day. Throughout the process they will learn much more than just how to pedal. Use of land, positive action and local involvement can effect an environmental change. Social growth, inevitably mobility can be realized.  Kayamandi is a suburb of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape province of South Africa located off route R304. The name means "nice home" in the Xhosa language, from khaya meaning "home" and mnandi meaning "nice".