Fiela's Child

Name: Fiela's Child
Genre: Historical Drama
Released: 2019
Duration: 125 min

Director: Brett Michael Innes

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Highlights

Based on a bestselling novel by Dalene Matthee
Created by award-winning South African filmmaker Brett Michael Innes
Most nominated film at the South African Film & Television Awards 2020
Winner of four awards, including the Audience Favorite at the Silwerskerm Film Festival and SAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay.
Screened at 50 movie theaters in South Africa and Namibia.

2019/ South Africa125 min/ Historical Drama

Original Title

Fiela Se Kind

SYNOPSIS

Southern Africa, 1880. A mixed-race woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, he is forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a group of woodpeckers that claim to be his family.

CAST

Zenobia Kloppers
Luca Bornman
Wayne Smith
Wayne van Rooyen

CREW

Screenwriter: Brett Michael Innes
DOP: Tom Marais
Editor: C.A. van Aswegen

Production Company(ies)

Nostalgia Productions
The Film Factory

Producer(s)

Brett Michael Innes
Danie Bester

Silwerskerm Film Festival, South Africa

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), Estonia

Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), Egypt

International Film Festival of India (IFFI), India

International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), India

Sedona Film Festival, USA

South African Film & Television Awards (SAFTA), South Africa

Audience Favorite, Best Score at the Silwerskerm Film Festival, South Africa

Audience Choice Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), Estonia

Best Film and Best Screenplay at the South African Film & Television Awards (SAFTA), South Africa

Best Achievement in Sound at African Movie Academy Awards, South Africa

Best Actress at South African Independent Film Festival, South Africa

Reviews

Victor Fraga - Dirty Movies

TheFlemishSeth - into:screens

Demetrios Matheou - Screen Daily

Quotes

“There’s a distinctive magical feel about the cinematography…” Victor Fraga - Dirty Movies

“Tom Marais (Hunter Killer) moves his camera with such finesse, it almost feels as if you’re part of the Komoetie-family.” TheFlemishSeth - into:screens

“With the aid of cinematographer Tom Marais’s painterly compositions, Innes creates a strong visual contrast between the brightness of the plains of the Komoetie’s home and the gloom of the forest, between cleanliness and dirt, joy and misery.” Demetrios Matheou - Screen Daily