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Prize-winner: Variations on a Theme was cast entirely from the local community. Photos: Supplied
AFRICAN FILM

Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme

A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice

  • Rolland Simpi Motaung
7 min read