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MAYFAIR

By Sara BLECHER

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

unknown - Completed 2018

Sara Blecher (Ayanda, LFF 2015) returns with a markedly different film – a groundbreaking, multi-cultural African gangster thriller.

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BFI London FF 2018
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    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • unknown
    • Countries
    • SOUTH AFRICA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sara BLECHER
    • Writer(s)
    • Neil MCCARTHY
    • Producer(s)
    • Dayo OGUNYEMI
    • Synopsis
    • Zaid, an international aid worker, is based in East Africa. After an altercation that results in his being fired,
      he returns home to Mayfair, a Johannesburg suburb
      that was once defined as ‘Indian’ by the architects
      of Apartheid, but has since become a melting pot of
      immigrants from across the continent. His overbearing
      father, a complex businessman who moonlights as a
      money launderer and loan shark, faces death threats
      after a deal with a gang of ruthless Somalis collapses.
      Initially reluctant to involve himself in his father’s affairs,
      Zaid has no choice when Ameena, his first love, is
      kidnapped. Blecher has already shown herself to be a
      skilled director with actors, but here she delivers a taut,
      finely-tuned thriller that is guaranteed to keep you
      on tenterhooks.
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