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FEATURE FILMSHISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO)Benjamin Naishtat, United States, 201422 July 10:00 Elangeni;25 July 22:30 Musgrave 6When a heat wave grips the suburbs, blackouts and waves of pollution push the social orderto the brink of collapse, forcing each inhabitant to confront his own motives, instincts andfears. History of Fear is a film about scared people. In the context of the chaotic summer inthe suburbs, the social order reveals itself to be fragile and about to give in. All the charactersappear to have a motive that lets instinct drive their decisions. The audience must join thecharacters in their uncertain drift, walk into the dark with them, and project that which liesin the core of fear itself. African PremiereSpanish with English, 79 minHOPEBoris Lojkine, France, 2015,21 July 20:00 Suncoast1Deep in the Sahara desert, as they try to get to Europe, Leonard, a young man from Cameroon,rescues Hope, a Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where safety requires staying withone's own people, these two try to find their way together, and to love each other. AfricanPremiereFrench, Arabic, English, Beni with English subtitles, 122 minIMPRESSIONS OF A DROWNED MAN (OI ENTYPOSEISENOS PNIGMENOU)Pascale Ramonda, Kyros Papavassiliou,Cyprus, Greece, Slovenia, 2015,20 July 22:00 Suncoast 8;24 July 22:00 Musgrave 5Totally disconnected from his past and memory, the Passenger tries to define himself,confronted by his pre-determined fate, a fate that he has to re-live upon every anniversaryof his death. The film functions beyond a basic presupposition that we have in our thought,namely that when we die, we disappear. The bracketing of this presupposition bringsforward a free-form, poetical narrative, and also becomes a call and a challenge for theviewer to bracket his/her rational presuppositions. Reason is attacked in this film and thisfact opens up a space for sensing the dimensions of human existence. African PremiereGreek with English subtitles, 82 min6036th Durban International Film Festival