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FOKOFPOLISIEKAR: Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do

With Francois van Coke, Wynand Myburgh, Hunter Kennedy, Johnny De Ridder, Jaco 'Snakehead' Venter

Directed by Bryan Little

This very well made documentary traces the rise of a group of Afrikaans friends from Cape Town, who started a rock band on their own terms, and in the process heading a cultural revolution in South African music as a whole (and Afrikaans language in particular).
The young filmmakers chronicling the band's emergence tackled the project on their own steam across several years, and tells the story via interviews with the band members, press and music critics, and a whole lot of music, live footage and photography (by Liam Lynch).
In a transitional South Africa the young Afrikaans community in particular had a bit of an identity crisis, and this band (whose name is translated as “Fuck-off police car”) found an audience searching for an outlet and something to belong.

5 / B
- Paul Blom


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