Seniors’ Free Matinee

A Dry White Season

+ intro by Patrice Robinson, Film Curator

An ordinary man’s conscience is ignited as apartheid’s violence shatters his complacency, in a searing drama about moral courage and the cost of looking away.

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  • Director

    Euzhan Palcy

  • With

    Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Zakes Mokae

  • USA 1989. 107min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Palcy’s powerful and uncompromising adaptation of André Brink’s celebrated novel confronts the brutal realities of apartheid through the moral awakening of Ben du Toit, a white Johannesburg schoolteacher. Initially apolitical, he agrees to help his black gardener search for his detained son, only to uncover a system built on torture, silence and fear. Featuring an Oscar-nominated cameo by Marlon Brando, A Dry White Season is both a personal reckoning and a fierce political indictment.

Free for the over-60s (booking by phone or in person only), otherwise standard matinee price.

See the Seniors’ Paid Matinee of Tuner on Wednesday 3 June 14:30 NFT2.