FLATLAND
by Jenna Bass
synopsis
The world of lonely, middle-age policewoman Beauty Cuba changes forever when she receives a call for help from Billy, the lost love of her life who has recently been re-arrested for murder. Beauty returns to her home town of Beaufort West, deep in the heart of the surreal landscape of the Karoo semi-desert and quickly learns that this case is not as simple as she thought. The real culprit of this accidental murder is a painfully shy young woman named Natalie who flees her small, rural town on horseback and teams up with her now pregnant childhood friend Poppie to outrun the law. Flatland is a journey of self-discovery for these three different but equally desperate women, painting a vivid and unique portrait of femininity against a hostile frontier-land and questions what it means to be a women in contemporary South Africa and the world at large.
original title: | Flatland |
country: | South Africa, Germany, Luxembourg |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jenna Bass |
screenplay: | Jenna Bass |
cast: | Nicole Fortuin, De Klerk Oelofse, Marco Diaz, Unikitty, Mahon Andoniaina, Olivér Sárközi, Dvo Marvel |
cinematography by: | Sarah Cunningham |
art director: | Sara Hartinger |
costumes designer: | Aoles Sport |
producer: | Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Alexandra Hoesdorff, David Horler, Désirée Nosbusch |
co-producer: | Titus Kreyenberg |
production: | IGC (In Good Company) Films, unafilm, Deal Productions, Proper Film (ZA) |