Girls apart

Duration: 38

Year Published: 1987

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This film profiles two 16-year-old girls, one black and one white, who inhabit the separate worlds proscribed by South African apartheid. Sylvia lives in the impoverished black township of Soweto; Sisca resides in an exclusive white suburb a few miles away. Sylvia and Sisca, who never meet, present the South Africa each knows and take the viewer on a tour of their homes, churches and communities. Sylvia has been arrested and tortured by police and is now a student activist. Sisca and her family support the government's policies but consider themselves enlightened acceptors of reform.

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