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Meanwhile in Mamelodi

20115.1 / 1075 min
Documentary

Overview

The World Cup in a Pretoria township and the life of an ordinary family: the struggle for survival, teenager problems, business, stress at school and – vuvuzelas.

Set against the raucous backdrop of the 2010 World Cup, MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI is a beautifully crafted portrait of a place and one family’s daily life inside it. The Mtsweni family lives in the Pretoria Township of the title, in the district known as Extension 11. Their world is a ramshackle collection of corrugated tin dwellings and makeshift shops, open sewers littered with debris and red-earth rectangles filled with soccer-playing children and teens. Seventeen-year-old Mosquito is one of those kids. As she studies for math tests, flirts with boys and shops with her best friend, her father Steven prepares his "tuck shop" for the promise of cash-flush tourists. Meanwhile, his wife struggles with mental illness. The Mtswenis' lives unfold as the Cup brings new hope to the ravaged town. Despite the poverty around her, Mosquito insists this is not her parents' country. She is the face of South Africa's future - part of "a new generation free to do all things."

Cast

Crew

Boris Frank

Boris Frank

Producer

Benjamin Kahlmeyer

Benjamin Kahlmeyer

Director

Benjamin Entrup

Benjamin Entrup

Editor

Michael Kaczmarek

Michael Kaczmarek

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Stefan Neuberger

Stefan Neuberger

Director of Photography

Jan Miserre

Jan Miserre

Original Music Composer

John Gürtler

John Gürtler

Original Music Composer

Jonathan Schorr

Jonathan Schorr

Sound Mixer