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DISCONTINUED May 2023
Mapantsula was the first anti-apartheid feature film by, for and about black South Africans. Filmed inside Soweto, scored to the urban beat of "Township Jive," Mapantsula has been called a South African The Harder They Come.
Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system. Mapantsula will give viewers an insider's tour of township life and a foretaste of the vibrant popular cinema promised by the new, democratic South Africa.
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"A moral drama in disguise...Our conscience and sense of outrage are ripped open." |
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"It's about time a feature film presents South Africa from a black perspective. Mapantsula does that and much more." |
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Spike Lee |
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