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Blending archive material from private collections and state sources \u2013 including records from the former Ministry of Information \u2013 with conversations with relatives and friends, <strong>Milisuthando<\/strong> interweaves Bongela\u2019s personal story with the broader history of her country, creating a deeply personal cinematic essay.<br \/>\n\u00bbThe thing I set out to do was find myself in history as a Black person. How does history, through this medium of the camera, represent me? Is it a true representation of who I am as an African? We came to realise that it\u2019s not. And if I can\u2019t rely on history; if I want to use this archive I\u2019m seeing, but it does not represent me fairly as a Black person or tell me who I am, we have to find a way to subvert it. And that led to a more associative editing style, almost telling new stories with the archive that we found. I want to call it a genre of Bantu cinema, which is fundamentally connected to African modalities of storytelling. It\u2019s much more circular, concentric. The occult, the esoteric is all mixed in. The line between reality and fiction is thin.\u00ab (Milisuthando Bongela)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Content-Notes-dt_eng2025.pdf\">Content notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the <em>Afrika Film Festival K\u00f6ln<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ydYDu8r_ARw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Milisuthando Bongela about <strong>Milisuthando:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Interview: <em>Africa Film Festival K\u00f6ln<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40603,"template":"","movie_year":[685],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[797,801],"festival":[805],"class_list":["post-41129","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-685","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2025","movie_cat-audience-award-en-2025","festival-2025-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Milisuthando - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/milisuthando\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Milisuthando - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Milisuthando Bongela was born in 1985 in Transkei, the first \u00bbhomeland\u00ab set up for Black South Africans, which was declared [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/milisuthando\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IFFF.Dortmund.Koeln\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-20T14:41:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IFFF2025_Milisuthando_16-9_website_01_c_RobPollockFrancis-Burger.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"608\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@frauenfilmfest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/\",\"name\":\"Milisuthando - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/IFFF2025_Milisuthando_16-9_website_01_c_RobPollockFrancis-Burger.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-06T14:10:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-20T14:41:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/en\\\/movie\\\/milisuthando\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/IFFF2025_Milisuthando_16-9_website_01_c_RobPollockFrancis-Burger.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/frauenfilmfest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/IFFF2025_Milisuthando_16-9_website_01_c_RobPollockFrancis-Burger.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":608,\"caption\":\"The picture shows a collage of several different pictures. 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