South Africa-raised filmmaker Teboho Edkins’s documentary begins in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou, following the daily movements of a young African man trying to make a living working in a hotel.
The film moves to Lesotho, a mountainous, landlocked region in the middle of South Africa, where a group of Chinese migrants have recently settled seeking their own economic stability and are living uneasily beside the rural community’s cattle ranchers.
Edkins situates his subjects as though in a fictional narrative, bearing witness to their lives and minute interactions even as they become players in a story of an emerging and competitive global trade relationship.
It is an expansive and immersive nonfiction work.
English, Sesotho, Fujianese, and Mandarin with English subtitles
Days of Cannibalism (2020): South Africa-Raised Teboho Edkins’s Remarkable Documentary
Teboho Edkins
France/South Africa/Netherlands, 2020
South Africa-raised filmmaker Teboho Edkins’s documentary begins in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou, following the daily movements of a young African man trying to make a living working in a hotel.
The film moves to Lesotho, a mountainous, landlocked region in the middle of South Africa, where a group of Chinese migrants have recently settled seeking their own economic stability and are living uneasily beside the rural community’s cattle ranchers.
Edkins situates his subjects as though in a fictional narrative, bearing witness to their lives and minute interactions even as they become players in a story of an emerging and competitive global trade relationship.
It is an expansive and immersive nonfiction work.
English, Sesotho, Fujianese, and Mandarin with English subtitles
Running time: 78 minutes