Tsotsi

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "Tsotsi", a film by Gavin Hood and based on the famous novel by Athol Fugard. This Oscar winning film treads on the topics of poverty, choice and redemption...

Synopsis:

Tsotsi is a poor young man living in a South African slum. Surviving by stealing and mugging, his existence comes to a turning point during a thieving expedition to the suburbs. As he tries to steal a car, a woman tries to stop him with little regard for her own life. In the struggle, he shoots her and drives off, only later to realise that the woman was not fighting for a possession, but for the little babe crying in the back seat...


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Solaris

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "Solaris", a science-fiction classic by Andrei Tarkovsky. Psychological and captivating, layered with meaning through and through, this blends pure cinematographic art and pure storytelling.

Synopsis:

A space station orbits the ocean-covered planet Solaris, an entity thought by some to be conscious. After contact is abruptly lost with the station, psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to survey the station. He is welcomed by deserted corridors and silent halls; the few scientists aboard secluded in their own rooms, suffering from nervous breakdowns. Exhaused from his trip and contact with the demented men, he falls asleep only to wake up to find his wife, whose suicide still weighs heavy on his conscience, sleeping on the same bed...

Can love survive death? What does it mean to be human? What is reality and what is purely manufactured by our mind? Solaris will keep you wondering throughout.


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Three Colours: Red

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "Red", concluding Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colours" trilogy. This cinematic tour de force stars Irène Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Synopsis:

"Red" relates the story of Valentine (Jacob), a naive student, whose tale centers about her meeting with a retired judge, Joseph Kern (Trintingnant), unknowingly to her an eavesdropper on the phone conversations of his neighbours. As his emotional seclusion and cynicism is thawed by Valentine's kindness, he reveals his secrets to her.

The vicious cyclicity of Kern's pain is mirrored in the story of one of his other neighbours, the young Auguste, a student about to embark on his law exams. As his academic dedication starts to alienate his girlfriend, Auguste, fate recreates Kern path in his own and erects a the very same wall about himself.

In turn, the lives of Valentine and Auguste zig-zag about each other, coming ever so close, yet never touching until...


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Yojimbo

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "Yojimbo", a film by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. This classic film, whose title means "Bodyguard", has been the main inspiration to the famous Western "A fistful of Dollars" and has influenced a host of other films including, funnily enough, "The Bodyguard".

Synopsis:

"Yojimbo" tells the story of Sanjuro Kuwabatake, a Ronin - masterless samurai - who comes across a town corrupted and decimated by the civil strife of two criminal families. Using his sharp katana, and sharper mind, he tries to restore peace to the village, but this task proves to be far from easy, as he is outnumbered and outgunned.

This skillfully blended mix of dramatic action and dark comedy has an atmosphere seldom seen in either of these genres. The characterisation of the Ronin shows a deep departure from modern action heroes, marking a sharp denial of mindless violence and an affirmation of compassion.


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Three Colours: White

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "White", part of the "Three Colours" trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, and starring Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy.

Synopsis:

The second film in the "Three Colours" pertains equality - dealing with relationships, immigration and "an eye for an eye"... The main protagonist, Karol (Zamachowski), is an immigrant married to Dominique (Delpy), who meets him in court to demand a divorce because of Karol's inability to consummate the marriage. The divorce leaves Karol on the street, a vagrant without home or love, alone to fend for himself. As misfortune follows misfortune, one thing brews in Karol's mind, to get even. Don't miss this White, a black comedy of the highest calibre!

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Three Colours: Blue

WAFS invites you this Sunday to see the screening of "Blue", from the "Three Colours" trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, and starring Juliette Binoche.

Synopsis:

Julie (Binoche) loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover. But she is haunted by the music that still surrounds her and by some unpleasant facts that she uncovers about her husband's life. Slowly Julie learns to live again, as music and the gift to create it prove to be a healing force.

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