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TANGO NEGRO, THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGODom Pedro, France, 2013 19 July 18:00 Musgrave 5;24 July 12:00 Durban Music School;25 July 21:30 Suncoast 7Tango Negro by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the contribution of African culturesin the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves who weretaken from central Africa to South America. Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints ofAfrican music on the tango through this rich movie, which combines musical performancesand interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, includingthe renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres. African PremiereSpanish with English subtitles, 93 minTHE 50 YEAR ARGUMENTMartin Scorsese, David Tedeschi, UnitedStates, Japan, United Kingdom, 201420 July 17:00 Musgrave 6;26 July 14:30 Suncoast 8The 50 Year Argument rides the wave of literary, political and cultural history as charted byits subject: The New York Review of Books. This provocative film explores the power of theseideas in shaping history. It weaves rarely-seen archival footage of cultural icons such as GoreVidal, Susan Sontag, and Norman Mailer. The documentary also showcases newly filmedinterviews with many of the Review’s current contributors and includes original verité filmedin the Review’s West Village offices. African PremiereEnglish, 96 minTHE ASYLUMSaskia Vredeveld, South Africa, 2013 18 July 14:00 Musgrave 5;21 July 22:00 Musgrave 5The Asylum is a powerful metaphor for the human condition directed by Saskia Vredeveldin association with artist/photographer Roger Ballen. The film narrative shows a strangeand surreal environment in which irreconcilable contradictions between the lust for powerand the desire to love are penetratingly played out between man and animal and man andwoman.No Dialogue, 9 min36th Durban International Film Festival85