Friday, February 15 5:45p
at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

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African Film Festival Film Forgiveness 5:45 pm Friday, February 15, 2008 Remis Auditorium Forgiveness by Ian Gabriel (South Africa, 2005, 118 min.). One of the most moving and complex films about truth and reconciliation to be produced in South Africa, Forgiveness is filled with images of sand-swept roads, wind-driven clouds, and pounding surf-all symbols of surrendering with the forward motion of time. read more
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African Film Festival Film Forgiveness 5:45 pm Friday, February 15, 2008 Remis Auditorium Forgiveness by Ian Gabriel (South Africa, 2005, 118 min.). One of the most moving and complex films about truth and reconciliation to be produced in South Africa, Forgiveness is filled with images of sand-swept roads, wind-driven clouds, and pounding surf-all symbols of surrendering with the forward motion of time. A film about time, about our unresolved relationship to the past, and about forgiving so we can finally move on. Tertius Coetzee, a former policeman, tortured and murdered ANC activist Daniel Grootboom. Coetzee has confessed his crime and been granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but does not feel his guilt can be assuaged until Grootboom’s family has exonerated him. He travels to their home in the fishing village of Paternoster on the windswept coast of South Africa’s Western Cape, to seek forgiveness.