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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.

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- 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.

KARATARA – ‘PLACE OF DEEP SHADOWS’

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