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FEATURE FILMSEVERYMAN’S TAXId. Ian Roberts, South Africa, 201258 34th Durban International Film Festival20 JULY 14:00 MUSGRAVE B; 22 JULY 14:00 LUTHULI;25 JULY 17:30 SUNCOAST AEveryman’s Taxi is a wacky road trip into the new South Africa. Set in 1989, just as NelsonMandela leaves Robben Island and FW de Klerk unbans the ANC, the film introduces us toDexter (Ian Roberts), a middle-aged white South African man. After winning a fortune ona gambling tip, Dexter buys a taxi and smashes the windscreen in revenge for the tormentcaused to him by taxi drivers on South Africa’s roads. However, when a tear forms in oneof the taxi’s light clusters, Dexter takes pity on it and decides to take it on a trip around arapidly transforming South Africa. World Premiere.Filmmakers in attendanceEnglish, Xhosa and Afrikaans with English subtitles, 98 minEVIL DEAD19 JULY 22:30 MUSGRAVE B; 21 JULY 19:30 NOuVEAU;d. Fede Alvarez, United States, 201327 JULY 20:30 NOuVEAU; 28 JULY 20:30 MUSGRAVE BHeading this year’s Zombie Fest! mini-focus, Evil Dead is a remake of the much-loved classicB-grade 1981 horror flick of the same name. Directed by Fede Alvarez, this latest renditionreprises the original story in which five twenty-something friends find themselves holed upin a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon updormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession,until only one is left intact to fight for survival. A must for fans of the series, Evil Dead is astylish and worthy homage that never feels like parody. African Premiere.English, 91 minFAT SHAKER (LARZANANDEYE CHARBI)21 JULY 14:30 SUNCOAST A; 22 JULY 20:00 MUSGRAVE B;d. Mohammad Shirvani, Iran, 201328 JULY 20:00 SUNCOAST AThis surreal exercise in absurdism from Iranian director Mohammad Shirvani introducesus to a particularly odd father and son. The older man (Levon Haftvan) is obese, unhealthyand oppressive in his dealings with his son (Navid Mohammadzadeh), who is deaf andmute. In a series of cryptic and strangely hypnotic episodes, a tyrannical paternalism isrevealed, one that has long since hardened into a closed circuit of mutual pain. Boldly andunabashedly experimental, but also deliberately obscure and frustratingly structured, thefilm challenges audiences to engage with its strange filmic language. Fat Shaker won theTiger Award in Rotterdam earlier this year. African Premiere.Dari and Persian with English subtitles, 84 min