Feature Film: Al wat ek weet

FEATURE FILMS Original screenplays and book adaptations have captivated Silwerskerm audiences over the past twelve years in the thrilling feature film category. An annual highlight of the festival, these cinematic experiences are crafted by the cream of the local industry across a variety of film genres, focusing on authentically South African stories. Al wat ek weet GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Devon Delmar, Jason Jacobs CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gray Kotze AUTHOR: Marita van der Vyver SCRIPTWRITER: Devon Delmar, Jason Jacobs CAST: Jonan Mouton, Zenobia Kloppers, June van Merch, Antoinette Myburgh, Gretchen Ramsden, Waldemar Schultz PRODUCTION HOUSE: Meria Produksies AGE RESTRICTION: 13V S L D When a car accident kills his mother and his father retreats into a clinic, seventeen-year-old Gabriel Lombard is uprooted from the leafy mountain suburbs and is sent to live in a cramped Woodstock house with his aunt Lotta and grandmother Lenie. Determined not to crumble like his father, he buries his grief behind a cool front, wild lies and an overripe imagination, where a Kaapse Klopse brass band chases him through the streets. In therapy, he meets Sasha and falls for her. To get closer to her, he is strong-armed into the school poetry slam. But the nearer the competition comes, the harder his buried grief pushes to the surface, until the boy who runs from everything must finally turn and face it.