ENCOUNTERS 2025: FITTING IN

Every year since our founding in 2010, The Bioscope has proudly hosted screenings of The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Now celebrating its 27th year as a festival, Encounters returns to The Bioscope once again with screenings at The Bioscope from 20 - 29 June. Tickets are R90. 

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FITTING IN

Dir. Fabienne Steiner | South Africa | 84 min | 2025 

In this carefully observed film, a group of young South African men from various walks of life begin their student experience at the elite University of Stellenbosch. Stellenbosch held a central place in academic life during the apartheid era and continues to be seen as a stronghold of white-Afrikaner privilege in post-apartheid South Africa. But beyond the structural racism that continues to define life in Stellenbosch and in the country as a whole, the campus has been the site of numerous incidents of racist violence over the last few decades. Fitting in spends a year with the residents of Eendrag, a male residence, which, like the rest of the campus, is steeped in colonial traditions – something that many of the new generation think needs changing. This is a timely film, whose explorations of masculinity through the lens of race, class and tradition will resonate far beyond the borders of South Africa.

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