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Title When the mountain meets its shadow / directed by Alexander Kleider and Daniela Michel ; produced by Dokwerk filmkooperative
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009

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Description 1 online resource (80 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Summary In hardly any other city of the world can poverty and wealth be found as close together. When the Mountain Meets Its Shadow tells the stories of Ashraf, Mne, Zoliswa and Arnold, who, each in their own way, fight for survival in the informal settlements around Cape Town. While Ashraf and his friend Mne from the Anti-Eviction Campaign fight against evictions, water and electricity cut-offs in the townships, Zoliswa and Arnold put their trust in their ability to work. Zoliswa, a single mother, is looking for a new position as a cleaner and Arnold trains as an armed guard to work in the booming security industry. When the city council wants to clear an entire informal settlement, Ashraf and his friend Mne are confronted with their own, undigested experiences from the apartheid years
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014)
Event Recorded in 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa
Notes This edition in English
Subject Poor -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Slums -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Poor.
Slums.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Cape Town (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Subject South Africa -- Cape Town.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Michel, Daniela, film director.
Kleider, Alexander, film director.
Dokwerk Filmkooperative (Firm), production company.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), publisher.