Flatland

Director: Jenna Cato Bass

Producer: David Horler and Anna Telford for Proper film

The world of lonely, middle-age policewoman Beauty Cuba changes forever when she receives a call for help from Billy, the lost love of her life who has recently been re-arrested for murder. Beauty returns to her home town of Beaufort West, deep in the heart of the surreal landscape of the Karoo semi-desert and quickly learns that this case is not as simple as she thought. The real culprit of this accidental murder is a painfully shy young woman named Natalie who flees her small, rural town on horseback and teams up with her now pregnant childhood friend Poppie to outrun the law. Flatland is a journey of self-discovery for these three different but equally desperate women, painting a vivid and unique portrait of femininity against a hostile frontier-land and questions what it means to be a women in contemporary South Africa and the world at large.

Opening film of the Panorama Programme at the Berlinale Film Festival 2019

Winner of Best African Feature, Johannesburg International Film Festival, 2019

Official Selection at TIFF. Selected by the TIFF NEXT WAVE committee of young film lovers.