KARATARA – ‘PLACE OF DEEP SHADOWS’

By Teboho EDKINS

CANNES DOCS - MARCHÉ DU FILM - as PROMO

Documentary - Development 2025

Karatara – ‘Place of Deep Shadows’, is a film about ghosts, in which the ghosts, both real and imagined, haunt the lives of a mixed-race community in a small town in post-apartheid South Africa.

Festivals
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Cannes 2024
Cannes Docs
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SOUTH AFRICA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 7 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Teboho EDKINS
    • Producer(s)
    • Carine CHICHKOWSKY (Survivance), Jia ZHAO (Muyi Films), Don EDKINS (Day Zero Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Karatara – ‘Place of Deep Shadows’, is a film about ghosts, in which the ghosts, both real and imagined, haunt the lives of a mixed-race community in a small town in post-apartheid South Africa.

      It is a film about memory, land and identity, an encounter with a South African society where the violence of the past shades and literally haunts the present. By searching for ghosts, and portraying the people haunted by them I understand what is happening in Karatara as the slow, inevitable process of decolonization up close.