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comments from filmmakers and critics @ True/False Film Festival
 
"A perfect film about brotherhood and growing up. Patient and fair."
- Lindsay Mann, Director/Cinematographer for Beachwood Film

"The protagonists, sympathetic yet street smart, are unforgettable."

- Christopher Gray, Boston Pheonix

"A gorgeous portrait of two young men being thrust into adulthood in a beautiful place, tempered by the harsh, violent reality of life in the Darwinian society of a slum."

- Jason Mann, Pullstart Pictures, Compass Light, Maine


"Hard to imagine that this was done by two young filmmakers fresh out of film school in Germany. It's a stunning verite film marked by an earthy, hard-earned poeticism, a piercing sense of place, and indelible characters in Lucky and Bongani. The film's narrative thread keeps the viewer involved throughout, but it's the full-on access here to the brothers and their unfolding story that is nothing short of miraculous. There's not a whiff of any self-consciousness about any of the scenes, although it's assembled with tremendous artistry. A breath of fresh air through and through -- this is a movie to be seen, one of the great docs of 2010."
- Paul Sturtz, director True/False Film Festival


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Lucky and Bongani at the International Documentary Film Festival in Leipzig  

screening in Munich

 
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Bongani, HFF faculty advisor Heiner Stadler, editor Ulrike Tortora, commissioning editor Natalie Lambsdorff, Andy Wolff and Stefanie Brockhaus

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