71st edition. From 23 to 31 October 2026.
71st edition.
23/31 Oct. 2026
23/31 Oct. 2026
Twenty five years after the overthrow of apartheid, Johannesburg and the surrounding townships became a place of daily disappearances of children. Life and death have a different valueand dimension when the reality is soaked in violence and the spirits of ancestors. Many children run away or are thrown out of their homes by troubled relatives. Some are being abducted for trade or child prostitution, others are being killed for organs, sold either for transplants or for witchcraft. Local police rarely does anything about it. When a child disappears, it disappears forever. But sometimes there is hope —his name is Jerry, and he single-handedly looks for abducted children. In ‘Walk with Angels’ we follow Jerry on his mission.
Medicine was a mistake. Fortunately, one day I set out on the first two-year journey around Asia and it changed my life. It was an illumination – I saw the path I wanted to follow.
I have visited over fifty countries of the Third World, and I would like to use my experiences from the last dozen years of traveling to create feature documentary films about the inaccessible worlds, whose existence almost no one knows about, and perhaps no one ever will...
At the moment, while planning my new travels and coming up with a topic for my new documentary film, I focus on writing a script based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.
