JOHANNESBURG AND SOWETO (Working title) (South Africa, 2010)
Nadav Kander grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was only after he came to England at the age of twenty-one that he realised how much the aggressive society of his old home had undermined his identity and sense of justice. Returning after thirty years, at the same time nostalgic and with the clearer gaze of an outsider, he encountered an overwhelmingly Black community in a city built with White money. The contempt for the polluted and dangerous surroundings was at odds with Soweto, where Kander had never been before. There the feeling of oppression was gone, and optimism, solidarity and pride ruled the now clean streets.
