Everything Must Fall

Original Title: Everything Must Fall

84' | 2018 (Completed)

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Director:	Rehad Desai
Producer:	Maarten Schmidt
Writer:	Anita Khanna

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An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the most militant national revolt since the country's first democratic elections in 1994.

synopsis

An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the most militant national revolt since the country's first democratic elections in 1994. The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist. When Habib's efforts to contain the protest fail, he brings 1,000 police onto campus. There are dire consequences for the young leaders: Mcebo Dlamini is arrested and charged with serious offences, Shaeera Kalla is shot 13 times with rubber-coated bullets; others, fearing the involvement of the state security agencies, are forced into hiding.Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation, shared across the generational divide, that somehow these youths have reached breaking point and won't back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation that previous generations had long given up on.

Credits

Director
Rehad Desai
Producer
Maarten Schmidt
Writer
Anita Khanna

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2018
Production status
Completed
Original title
Everything Must Fall

Technical specs

Running time
84'

Contact & sales

Contact

Storyhouse

Aalststraat 7-11
1000 Brussel
Belgium

maarten@storyhousefilm.com

www.storyhousefilm.com

Details
Sales

Deckert Distribution

Gottschedstr. 18
DE-04109 Leipzig
Germany

www.deckert-distribution.com