Sea Point Days

Emmy Award-winning Francois Verster’s latest film is an ode to the Mother City and its people. Lying on the coast of Cape Town – South Africa’s most segregated city – there is one public space where everyone does seem to come together: The previously exclusively-white Sea Point promenade and municipal pools. Set between city and ocean, this beautiful strip of “everymansland” offers a quirky and often entertaining mix of class, race, gender and religion: A place where South Africans of all backgrounds can experience happiness together. But is all as it appears?

This film presents an unusual and impressionistic record of life on the promenade and in the pools, and the people who inhabit this space, using largely cinematic vignettes to explore issues of belonging, integration, nostalgia, happiness and identity in an ex- white South African neighbourhood.