Darrell Roodt Articles

YESTERDAY (2004) Direction and screenplay: Darrell Roodt Cast: Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Kambule, Harriet Lehabe, Camilla Walker Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Yesterday To date, nowhere has the AIDS pandemic been felt more strongly than in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to approximately 10% of the world's population and to about two-thirds of the planet's 30-35 million AIDS cases. In the past [...]

Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé Besides the usual Planet Africa program, which presents five features and eight shorts, the 2004 Toronto Film Festival is offering a look at South African cinema. The five features presented in the sidebar South Africa: Ten Years Later are Darrell Roodt's Zulu-language Yesterday, Red Dust, Drum, Forgiveness, and Cape of Good Hope. Film topics range from the bleak (AIDS in Yesterday) and [...]