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DOCUMENTARIESTHE CESSATIONLotte Manicom, South Africa, 201418 July 12:00 Nouveau;20 July 12:00 ElangeniAngola in south-west Africa was subjected to brutal conflicts that raged for over forty years.Thousands of refugees fled over the borders into neighbouring countries in search of a safehaven. Many came to the coastal city of Cape Town, on the western coast of South Africa. Here,in exile, the Angolan community created thriving businesses and families of their own. Now,twenty years on, this diaspora is facing a new challenge. In 2013, the South African governmentended their refugee protection. This short documentary follows three members of this vibrantAngolan diaspora in Cape Town as it maps the impact of this cessation on their lives.English, Portuguese with English subtitles, 17 minTHE CULT OF JT LEROYMarjorie Sturm, United States, 2014 18 July 22:00 Musgrave 5;26 July 21:45 Musgrave 5JT (aka Jeremiah 'Terminator') LeRoy claimed to have been abandoned by his mother duringa cross-country road trip in San Francisco. At age 15, JT was advised by a therapist to writeas a form of therapy. In 1994, JT began soliciting long-distance mentoring relationshipswith numerous established writers, editors and literary agents. All were at first reluctantlyintrigued by the unseen teenager’s harrowing circumstances and then later enthralledby the precocious writing samples they were sent. The film explores how the trio of LauraAlbert, her partner Geoffrey Knoop, and his half-sister playing (JT LeRoy in public) managedto pull off this crazy literary hoax for almost 10 years and the phenomenal cultural andemotional resonance it had on those who believed it. African PremiereEnglish, 90 min8636th Durban International Film Festival