THE SISTERHOOD - DIFFICULT LOVE

The Sisterhood
dir : Roger Horn
2010 / South Africa/ 52 min
Hazendal farmhands Pietie, Hope and Rollie are not your typical Western Cape vineyard workers – Hope aspires to winning the local drag queen pageant, Rollie dreams of a husband and of retiring as the reigning queen of drag, while Pietie is seriously concerned with his roses, chickens and doves.
Life is good at Hazendal, but not without its travails, described as the trio discuss, through self-shot video footage, daily challenges and the preparations for the next pageant. It’s clear that Kaapse plaas moffies confront prejudice at every turn – from their own farming communities, from dorpse moffies and the world at large. Yet Roger Horn’s film manages to find the fabulous in the fraught and offer a portrait of triumph in togetherness rather than loneliness in victimhood.


Difficult Love (DBN & PMB)
Dir: ZaneleMuholi and Peter Goldsmid

South Adrica, 2010, 48min
An intimate portrait of the sometimes infamous lesbian photographer, Zanele Muholi, an unapologetic chronicler of her community, amongst the most hidden and threatened in our country.Muholi is disarming and very articulate about the purpose of her work.