Wavescape Film Festival

Let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a cheeky doccie or watching someone bang that lip. This year the Wavescape Surf & Ocean Festival is screening a total of 29 surf and ocean films. With such a stacked lineup, there’s no doubt something for everyone!!  FEATURES  PRIBOI – AFRICAN PREMIERE Russia, 2018, 79min Director: Konstantin Kokorev Showing: Labia Cinema, Fri 7 Dec, 20h15 This sumptuous marker of Russian film-making takes us surfing to unknown parts of Russia with a hardy crew of top local surfers. Recently won Best Film at the London Surf Film Festival. It represents a two-year journey from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka and across the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea. Amazing cinematography by Kokorev gives beautiful insights into how the surfing culture in Russia was born. A favourite. Trailer Big Wata – 2018 from GUGI on Vimeo. BIG WATA – AFRICAN PREMIERE Sierra Leone, 2018, 80min Director: Gugi van der Velden Showing: Labia Cinema, Sun 9 Dec, 18h15 Big Wata West Africa has a turbulent and violent past, marked by civil war and ravaged by disease. In a small corner of Sierra Leone, during an Ebola outbreak, a band of brothers find solace, escape and a new sense […]

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