Kristen Harding

At the Encounters International Documentary Festival, films from South Africa and abroad illuminate urgent issues of land ownership, cultural identity and the power of music in resistance. A polar bear must endure the shrinking of his icy habitat and navigate the land alongside modern human life. A journalist investigates Kenya's tea plantations, where the hands of imperialism seem to have never left. And a young hip-hop artist in Cape Town pieces together words of self-expression.

Orwell: 2+2=5 documents the ongoing relevance of George Orwell's warnings against totalitarianism, proving that the Orwellian prophecy has already taken shape around us. Seventy-seven years ago, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. An ominous warning against totalitarianism, the novel became an uncanny prophetic text, bringing into the English language neologisms that would go on to shape how authoritarian control is perceived and addressed.

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