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THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZADFrancois Verster, South Africa, Egypt, Jordan, 17 July 17:30 Suncoast 8; 22 July 17:00France, Netherlands, 2014Suncoast1; 25 July 13:00 Musgrave 5The Dream of Shahrazad locates recent political events in the Maghreb and Middle East within abroader historical and cultural legacy: that of the famous collection of stories known as The 1001(Or 'Arabian') Nights. Using the metaphor of Shahrazad – the storytelling princess in the Nights whosaves lives by telling stories – and filmed before, during and after the so-called 'Arab Spring', the filmweaves together a web of music, politics and storytelling to explore the ways in which creativityand political articulation coincide in response to oppression. A series of unforgettable charactersall draw their inspiration from the Nights and, like Shahrazad, put creativity to new political use.Arabic, Turkish, English with English subtitles, 107 minTHE LOOK OF SILENCEJoshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, Indonesia,Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, 201419 July 14:15 Suncoast 6;25 July 20:15 Musgrave 6A family who survived the Indonesian genocide discovers how their son was murdered andthe identity of the men who killed him. The family's youngest son asks how he can raise hischildren in a society where survivors are terrorised into silence, and everyone is terrorisedinto treating the murderers as heroes. In search of answers, he decides to confront each ofthe surviving killers involved in his brother's murder. And thus begins, through cinema, anunprecedented dialogue.Indonesian with English subtitles, 103 minTHE SALT OF THE EARTHWim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro, Brazil, France,Italy, 201419 July 14:00 Suncoast 7;26 July 20:00 Suncoast 7For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through thecontinents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of themajor events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is nowembarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandioselandscapes as part of a huge photographic project that is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during hislast travels.English, Portuguese, French with English subtitles, 110 min36th Durban International Film Festival87