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Investigative journalist Luyanda Masinda's life is thrown into shock when her one-night lover, renowned editor Stanley Galloway, is hijacked and killed in front of her in a busy Johannesburg street. When it becomes clear that Stanley's death was engineered by unknown forces in high places, and Luyanda discovers that Stanley has been receiving explosive information from a secret military whistle-blower, she realizes that the clue to his death may lie with the secrets the whistle-blower is determined to reveal. After an initial clash, Luyanda and the whistle-blower Albert Loots join forces and must sacrifice everything in their quest to expose state capture of South Africa's military assets by a corrupt group profiteering from the illicit trade in military hardware and chemical weaponry to rogue states across Africa.
Laurels:
- 2024 Best African Film: Joburg Film Festival
- 2023 Selection: Toronto International Film Festival
Film co-presented by: The Vancouver Foreign Film Society
- Year2023
- Runtime127 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountrySouth Africa
- Content WarningViolence
- DirectorIan Gabriel
- ScreenwriterLouis Viljoen, Marius Scholtz
- CastNoxolo Dlamini, Irshaad Ally, Kathleen Stephens
Investigative journalist Luyanda Masinda's life is thrown into shock when her one-night lover, renowned editor Stanley Galloway, is hijacked and killed in front of her in a busy Johannesburg street. When it becomes clear that Stanley's death was engineered by unknown forces in high places, and Luyanda discovers that Stanley has been receiving explosive information from a secret military whistle-blower, she realizes that the clue to his death may lie with the secrets the whistle-blower is determined to reveal. After an initial clash, Luyanda and the whistle-blower Albert Loots join forces and must sacrifice everything in their quest to expose state capture of South Africa's military assets by a corrupt group profiteering from the illicit trade in military hardware and chemical weaponry to rogue states across Africa.
Laurels:
- 2024 Best African Film: Joburg Film Festival
- 2023 Selection: Toronto International Film Festival
Film co-presented by: The Vancouver Foreign Film Society
- Year2023
- Runtime127 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountrySouth Africa
- Content WarningViolence
- DirectorIan Gabriel
- ScreenwriterLouis Viljoen, Marius Scholtz
- CastNoxolo Dlamini, Irshaad Ally, Kathleen Stephens