The World Unseen - Festival Centerpiece

Saturday November 15, 2008
7:00pm

UK, 2007, 94 Minute Running Time

Language: English

Director: Shamim Sarif

Tickets: $9.00

In 1950's South Africa, apartheid is just beginning.

Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community in South Africa by running a café, a safe haven of laughter, music and home-cooked food; a 'grey area' for those who fall outside the strict 'black and white' rules of the apartheid-led government.

Café regulars include Amina's feisty waitress Doris, her gentle 'Coloured' business partner Jacob and the sparky white local postmistress Madeleine. Long accustomed to the racial barriers of the country and its new laws, Madeleine and Jacob nevertheless share a budding attraction.

Miriam, on the other hand, is a doting mother to her children and a demure and subservient wife to her chauvinistic, frustrated husband, Omar.

When Miriam meets Amina, their unexpected attraction throws them both off balance. Although Miriam manages to subdue her fascination with unconventional Amina, she finds herself slowly inspired to confront familiar and familial constraints.