Dorpie

Dorpie follows community worker Lana O’Neill for 6 years as she goes about her days ensuring the safety of young women in the small town of Bredasdorp where she has established a safe haven in the wake of a series of rapes and murders of girls and women. Candidly shot, the film shows how poverty, addiction and sexual violence wreak havoc on the often desperate lives of the women of Bredasdorp and consequently on the community as a whole. This delicately rendered film offers a sensitive character study of a woman making the most of her natural leadership qualities but struggling against the tide. While Dorpie provides a moving tribute to Lana’s fiery compassion, the film also makes it clear that one woman, no matter how determined, cannot transform the structural inequalities that make life so precarious for the most vulnerable South Africans''

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Lana and film maker Julia Jaki moderated by Advocate Bernadine Bachar, Director of the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children.

8 March / 10:30am

RSVP: vuyokazi.mahomba@za.boell.org