BACK OF THE MOON FILM

The 40th Durban International Film Festival will host the World Premiere of the powerful Sophiatown film, BACK OF THE MOON .

Written, produced and directed by Academy Award® nominee Angus Gibson, the film stars Richard Lukunku, Moneoa Moshesh, Lemogang Tsipa, Siya Zulu and Thomas Gumede.  

SYNOPSIS:

28 July 1958. Badman (Richard Lukunku), an intellectual and the leader of the most powerful gang in Sophiatown, lives life on his own terms in this crazy, cosmopolitan, half demolished ghetto on the edge of Johannesburg.

The gorgeous Eve Msomi,(Moneoa Moshesh), a torch-singer on the brink of an international career, is giving her last concert in the local hall before she travels to London.

Tomorrow, legions of police will force the residents of Gerty street out of their homes and they will be trucked to a desolate township, ten miles out of the city.

Refusing to face the bleak reality of black South African life, Badman has decided that he will fight to the death for his home.

But fate thrusts Eve Msomi, whom he has loved from a distance, into his orbit. And on this night that bears this beautiful encounter, Badman’s gang, The Vipers, sensing his vulnerability, turns on them both.

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