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On the sleepy shores of Langebaan, South Africa, the father of the world's most powerful men speaks freely about family, race, politics and power. Just outside the frame, sound recordist Johnny Appelgate listens. As the day unfolds, the man we came to hear is no longer the only one we are watching.

Filmmaker Bio:
Julia Jansch is a South African writer, director and producer whose work follows people striving to transcend deep personal wounds and the broken systems that confine them, drawn to the moments when light breaks through and a different life becomes imaginable. Rooted in documentary, her intimate, character-driven films have travelled widely: My Father the Mover won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by MTV Studios; ELSA premiered at Tribeca and was released by The New Yorker; and The Academy was released globally on Disney+ as part of its People & Places series. Her first feature documentary, From Dust, We Spin recently won Best South African Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival, qualifying it for Academy Award consideration.