Yeoville, one of Johannesburg's oldest suburbs and long-time home to Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, became a non-racial bastion of anti apartheid struggles in the decade before South Africa's first democratic election. It was once celebrated as a model of non-racial coexistence that attracted musicians, artists and political types, but today it is a symbol of crime and urban decay.

A personal lament for a South African urban village in decay.

Dir: Sello Molefe
South Africa/2004
In English
48 mins., color, video

Director Sello Molefe grew up with his family in Yeoville, and this film is his love song and lament for his home.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of South African freedom, SABC1, South Africa's most watched channel, recruited and trained promising new directors to tell the stories of their ten years of freedom on film.

2004 - South African Film Festival, New York
World Premiere
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:00pm
Saturday, May 1, 2004 5:00pm
Q & A with director to follow