Mother City (2024)
Filmed over six years, Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town – a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid 30 years into democracy. The story begins when the government sells a school, meant for affordable housing, to a private developer. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, this intimate and at times funny narrative documentary charts Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi leading a defiant war against government and property developers – on the streets, in the supreme court and in parliament.
Directors: Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert.
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Nkosikhona Swartbooi as Narrator |
| Directing | Miki Redelinghuys | Director |
| Directing | Pearlie Joubert | Director |
| Production | Zikethiwe Ngcobo | Producer |
| Production | Miki Redelinghuys | Producer |
| Sound | Charl-Johan Lingefelder | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Pearlie Joubert | Producer |
| Camera | Zacharia Mashele | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Edward George King | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Miki Redelinghuys | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Tim Wege | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Pearlie Joubert | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Barry Donnelly | Sound |
| Editing | Khalid Shamis | Editor |