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HALLEYd. Sebastian Hofmann, Mexico, 19 JULY 20:30 MUSGRAVE B; 21 JULY 22:00 MUSGRAVE A;The Netherlands, 201325 JULY 20:30 SNEDDONThis haunting drama from first-time writer-director Sebastian Hofmann tells the storyof a security guard named Beto (Alberto Trujillo) working in a Mexico City gym, whowithdraws into isolation as his body is slowly consumed by a mysterious sickness.Every day Beto is surrounded by vibrant, healthy bodies while his own body is slowlyrotting away – despite his attempts to inject himself with embalming fluid. Yet despiteBeto’s gradual decay, Hofmann never treats the strange and disturbing condition of hisprotagonist with anything less than respect. This darkly beautiful first film was nominatedfor the Tiger Award at Rotterdam this year. African Premiere.Filmmakers in attendanceSpanish with English subtitles, 83 minHAROLD’S GOING STIFFd. Keith Wright, United Kingdom, 21 JULY 18:30 MUSGRAVE B; 23 JULY 18:00 SUNCOAST B;201127 JULY 21:30 SUNCOAST BElderly Harold Gimble is suffering from a frightening new disease that is turning him,along with a large proportion of British men – the disease does not affect women – intoa member of the undead. As the first recorded sufferer in the UK, Harold is placed underthe care of buxom nurse Penny and the two swiftly form a close friendship. But after anexperimental new treatment fails, Harold’s condition deteriorates and he ends up on therun from a group of vigilantes who are out for blood. Harold’s Going Stiff is an instant cultclassic that playfully inverts the parameters of the zombie genre. African Premiere.English, 77 minINTERIOR. LEATHER BAR.d. Travis Mathews, James20 JULY 21:30 MUSGRAVE A; 25 JULY 22:30 SUNCOAST A;Franco, United States, 201328 JULY 19:00 MUSGRAVE BInterior. Leather Bar. occupies a particularly unusual space between fiction anddocumentary in its exploration of contemporary masculinity. Co-directed by JamesFranco and Travis Mathews, the film is a reconstruction of a censored segment fromthe controversial 1980 Al Pacino film Cruising, intercut with interviews with actors andfilmmakers during the making of the reconstruction. Over the course of a single day,Franco and Mathews gathered together a band of straight and gay actors to reconstructtheir imagining of the 40 minutes that were excised from the original film and which wereset in a leather bar. Interior. Leather Bar. is the fascinating and provocative result.English, 60 min34th Durban International Film Festival 61