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Surfing Soweto

Surfing Soweto
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Directed by Sara Blecher
Produced by Sara Blecher
Screenplay by Justine Loots
Music by Phillip Miller
Cinematography Dudley Saunders
Edited by Karyn Bosch
Release date
  • 2010 (2010)
Running time
85 minutes
Country South Africa

Surfing Soweto is a 2010 documentary film directed by Sara Blecher.

Surfing Soweto is the story of a forgotten generation: Bitch Nigga, Lefa and Mzembe are three of the most notorious train surfers in Soweto. They represent a generation of alienated youth, born during the glowing promise after the demise of apartheid and yet without the skills or wherewithal to reap the benefits of their newly-won freedoms. Surfing Soweto shows them riding on the top of trains (train surfing) which in South Africa is known as "ukudlala istaff", ducking as they hurtle past lethal electrical cables, and also in the intimacy of their homes and families.



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