Black Butterflies

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This is the trailer for Black Butterflies, the movie about South African poet legend Ingrid Jonker, described  by some as ‘South Africa’s Sylvia Plath’, and in Nelson Mandela’s own words:

“She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African.
She was both an artist and a human being. In the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted by death, she asserted the beauty of life.”

Looks like a tear jerker but definitely one to watch. The movie itself is set in Cape Town and features lots of local scenes you will recognise. Jonker is an SA legend – go read her work if you don’t know it. She published her first collection of poems before she was 13. Child prodigy stuff 2 the max.