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VLIEEKRAAL

By Pierre LE ROUX

NATIONAL FILM & VIDEO FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (NFVF) - as PROMO

Drama - Completed 2016

In the year 2064, after a dreaded civil war, Vlieëkraal, a
small town in the Karoo faces desiccation at the hands of an
illegal ’fracking’ mining company, but, one man - a dark
stranger with an unknown past - arrives and changes the town
destiny in a bloody battle for the preservation of a way of life.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Pierre LE ROUX
- Synopsis
- The year is 2064, 50 years after President Nelson Mandela
  died and four years after the end of the most destructive
  civil war South Africa, and the world, have ever seen. A boy
  BOB looks over the Vlieëkraal Valley with his binoculars,
  the Karoo is dry and barren, a wasteland tainted
  by the scourge of war and dotted with massive fracking
  towers - poisoning the last ounces of life left in the
  land.
  BOB’s gaze is suddenly drawn to a cloud of billowing dust
  behind an old customized chopper. The rider is SHAUN, lean,
  rugged and tall, the lapel of his coat hosts a golden laurel
  and dagger - a Recce badge. SHAUN comes to a sign, left to
  ’Vlieëkraal Farm,’ a peaceful farmhouse, and right to
  ’Mining Operations,’ tall fracking towers shrouded in
  smog. Two MINERS, drunk and rowdy, pester SHUAN and try to
  steal his chopper, he swiftly dispenses them, jumps on his
  chopper, turns left and rides to the farmhouse.
  BOB looks down the driveway and SHAUN is riding up. JOE
  STRAGGEN stands behind his son and together they greet the
  stranger as he uses some water from their tap. Sensing a
  goodwill in SHAUN, JOE asks him to stay the night, SHAUN
  accepts. SHAUN spends time with the family, JOE shows him
  his plan to turn the underground into fertilizer for the
  Karoo, SHAUN sees the fracking towers in the
  distance. Eating breakfasts made by JOE’s wife MARIAN and
  discussing the city, SHAUN ingratiates himself with the
  family and earns the admiration of young
  BOB. Hoany real information about himself, but he displays his
  protective nature when he prevents JOE being swindled by a
  trader.
  wever, during this time SHAUN does not reveal