Our lives - now. Girls Apart
Sisca and Sylvia are both 16, schoolgirls living only a few miles from each other, but they have never met. Each comes from a family which is thought politically moderate and reasonably well-off. They are South Africans. Sisca is white, Sylvia is black. Each girl introduces the South
Africa she knows - her home, family, and way of life. Sisca, in Johannesburg, says apartheid no longer exists. Sylvia, in Soweto, has been arrested and tortured by the police. Violence is never far away. Sisca is confident that the authorities will go on making the right decisions. Sylvia, at the emotional funeral of a school-friend killed by vigilantes, sees a more disturbing future.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER SHEPPARD CLAUDE SAUVAGEOT
Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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