VOETSEK! US, BROTHERS?

Credits

Name: VOETSEK! US, BROTHERS?

Country: Südafrika

Year of publication: 2017

Format: DCP

Color: color

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 75 Minuten

Direction: Andy Spitz

Guest: Spitz, Andy

Abstract

VOETSEK! US, BROTHERS? explores the shocking outbreaks and the reactions to the widespread xenophobic violence between 2008 and 2015. The film was made over a period of ten years and it features film footage of those directly involved in the conflicts. The testimonies of South African perpetrator Accle Mathebula and three victims of the violence – Jonathan Zulu (Zimbabwe), Emile Kilozo (Burundi) and Alex Msambia (DRC) – as well as the ambiguous public statements emanating from the two-faced government, help to create a nuanced, intimate and awkward insight into the causes and entanglements that triggered and sustained the xenophobic violence. “‘Voetsek’ can roughly be translated as ‘Fuck off’”, says director Andy Spitz about the Afrikaans phrase in her film’s title.