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Newly restored and reissued, Classified People (1987) exposes South Africa’s insidious apartheid policy of 'race classification' by the Population Registration Act, dividing the country into four groups and subgroups, subjugating the lives of all non-white people.
Filmmaker Yolande Zauberman (M, La Belle De Gaza) focuses on the life of Robert, who found himself classified “colored” by an administrative tribunal while his wife and children were classified “white”. Decades later Robert is happily remarried to a black woman named Doris, and together they recount the absurdity of the racial laws which tore his family apart.
Shot clandestinely in 16mm, Classified People is a lesson in radical documentary filmmaking and a deeply intimate depiction of the ways in which state-sanctioned segregation infiltrates the most private lives of those affected by it.
Please note: Classified People has a short run time of 53 minutes.
Screening times and booking
Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings
Prices
Peak: £9 (£7 concessions)
Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings
Prices
Peak: £9 (£7 concessions)