ENC: Communion & I Made You, I Kill You

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.

Tickets R55

Communion (2016)

Directed by: Anna Zamecka 

72min

Affecting and episodic, Zamecka’s début is about Marek Kaczanowski and his two adolescents. Ola, an extraordinary 14-year-old parents her autistic brother, Nikodem. Mostly set in their welfare apartment, the use of fixed lenses enables a remarkable intimacy; shunning a didactic narrative, and allowing the storyline to unfold through dialogue and acute observation. Masterful editing adds to the unhurried pace and fiction-like unravelling of character. Less a portrait of family dysfunction than an essay in familial tenderness and endurance.

I Made You, I Kill You (2016)

Directed by: Alexandru Petru

14min

This haunting multimedia film uses a mix of video, animation, photographs, children’s drawings, music and voice-overs to provide an account of the Director’s traumatic childhood.