ENCOUNTERS 2022: One Take Grace

Every year since our founding in 2010, The Bioscope has proudly hosted screenings of The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.

Always a highlight in our calendar, the festival returns to The Bioscope once again with screenings from 24 June - 3 July. Tickets are R70.

SEE THE FULL BIOSCOPE SCHEDULE FOR ENCOUNTERS HERE

ONE TAKE GRACE

Dir: Lindiwe Matshikiza

South Africa | 2021 | 91 min

This engagingly idiosyncratic film introduces us to 58-year-old Mothiba Grace Bapela, a Black South African woman who has long worked as a domestic worker and decides in her 40s that she would like to become an actress. Shot over the course of 10 years by multidisciplinary artist Lindiwe Matshikiza and her collaborators, using a range of cameras – including body cams on Bapela – the result is strangely engaging, the experimental edge of the film softened by the charisma of its subject. The result is an immersive adventure in surrealism, although strongly linked to the lived reality of the many South Africans who work in other people’s houses at the expense of their own family life. Making use of repetitive soundscapes, animation and re-enactments, One Take Grace’s unique perspective makes for compelling viewing. The film was nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature.

COVID POLICY AND PROCEDURE.

The new Bioscope location is set to be a 47 seater cinema. We are however selling far less in order for there to be space to sit apart from other members of the public. We ask you to please keep your mask on the entire time within the cinema premises. Drinks and snacks will be on sale and can be consumed during the film, but please consider those around you when your mask is off for this. 44 Stanley is largely an open air shopping centre, and The Bioscope has a great outside space directly outside the cinema that public can make use of. Within the cinema, we will also make use of temperature reading, air filtering, and constant cleaning to make sure that The Bioscope remains a safe and hygienic experience.

After purchasing tickets, if you experience any COVID related symptoms, or come into contact with anyone who has tested positive, we ask you to please not attend the screening. Please understand that The Bioscope will not be able to refund you this ticket. We are happy however for you to give your ticket to someone else that can attend. If this is not possible, we would be happy to exchange your ticket for a future screening. This can all be coordinated via email at [email protected]