What Did You Dream? (2019)

Directed by Gilli Apter
20 min

SA/X is a comic mock-documentary, set in 2004 Johannesburg, following the journey of Kim Smart; a fair- skinned African girl who dares to look outside of her burglar-proof suburban world. What she finds is a city both tattered and triumphant and a generation come-of-age in a post-apartheid reality. SA/X profiles a truly contemporary slice of urban youth culture. The film inter-cuts an absorbing, simple narrative with (staged) documentary-style interview clips of random South African 20-somethings exploring their concerns and values. The interviews bring a universal element to the story, as Kim breaks free from her controlling and prejudiced family and boyfriend, makes friends with a multiracial punk band, and ventures into a part of the city long considered to be a no-go zone by most whites. Ten years on, amid a landscape rife with urban and social blight, this is the story of a liberated South Africa and Kim Smart as they make their ambling way down the continuing road to freedom.

Awards

Winner of Silver Leopard of Tomorrow Award, Locarno Leopards of Tomorrow Festival, Switzerland 2005

Short Film in Competition (Finalist), Cape Town World Cinema Festival, South Africa 2004

 Official Selection

Silhouette Film Festival, France 2007

Ongeriewe, Rome Film Festival, Italy 2007

The ReelWorld Film Festival, Canada 2006

Munich International Festival of Film Schools 2005

London Short Ends Festival 2005

 Tous Les Cinemas du Monde, Cannes Film Festival, France 2005

 Durban International Film Festival, South Africa 2005

Apollo Film Festival, South Africa 2005