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FEATURE FILMS36d. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit,19 JULY 22:15 SUNCOAST A; 27 JULY 11:45 SUNCOAST CThailand, 2012In 36, a location scout named Sai visits various sites, taking numerous photographs with anart director she has just met. On assignment to find buildings with the look and feel of thepast, Sai and Oom’s mission takes them to the wreckage of a Vietnam War-era ‘love hotel,’where the Buddhist notion of impermanence becomes part of the conversation. When Sai'smemory stick fails her two years later, she finds herself longing for Oom and their experiencetogether. Filmed in 36 shots, this arresting first film is spell-binding in its languid rhythmsand promises a bright future for Thai director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. African Premiere.Thai with English subtitles, 68 minACTORHOLICd. Oliver Rodger, South Africa,20 JULY 14:30 SNEDDON; 26 JULY 18:00 EKHAYA;201228 JULY 14:30 MUSGRAVE AFrom writer-director Oliver Rodger, who gave us last year’s side-splitting body-switchcomedy Copposites, comes this dryly comedic film about a frustrated actor. Fed up ofbeing type-cast and overlooked for epic film roles, Ramesh Dhoni decides to re-invent thevery foundations of acting – and thus ensure his fame/immortality – through a new andcontroversial reality show in which he secretly fakes his own death and has a camera crewfollow his family through their grief. This engagingly offbeat local comedy will appealto fans of the dead-pan humour of The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm. World Premiere.Filmmakers in attendanceEnglish, 75 minAFRICAN GOTHIC (DIEPE GROND)d. Gabriel Bologna, United States, 20 JULY 12:00 MUSGRAVE B; 24 JULY 15:30 EKHAYA;South Africa, 201225 JULY 18:00 SUNCOAST CThis dramatic thriller is set on a desolate rural farm in South Africa, and follows the livesof two lovers who have allowed their farm to fall to ruin by rejecting reality and creatingan eerie fantasy world. When they are visited by a lawyer from the city, he becomes theobject of their perverse games and is forced into joining in the madness. African Gothic isbased on Diepe Grond, the critically-acclaimed Afrikaans-language play by South Africanplaywright Reza de Wet, who died early last year. African Premiere.Filmmakers in attendanceEnglish and Afrikaans with English subtitles, 90 min54 34th Durban International Film Festival