Cold Harbour

A hard-boiled crime drama from South Africa, with Tony Kgoroge (A Long Walk to Freedom, Blood Diamond) in the lead role. A Chinese with ties to an international shipping agency is found dead on the waterfront of Cape Town. The ambitious police detective Sizwe Miya (Kgoroge) is on the case. Miya has a past in the criminal underworld but is now one of the very few non-corrupt policemen in the dysfunctional city. He receives pressure from all sides to give up on the case, as it turns out that international companies, and perhaps even the police, are involved. Miya refuses to give up, and puts a large multinational company in jeopardy. This leads to increasing corruption amongst his own colleagues, and he ends up in grave danger.

Cold Harbour is a crime mystery, high with plenty of energy and big Hollywood-worthy action scenes.

Carey McKenzie (b. 1969) is from Cape Town. Her feature debut Cold Harbour (2013), where she was responsible for script and direction, was shown on the African Film Festival in New York. She also directed Original Child Bomb (2004), which received the Jury Prize at Silverdocs and Bologna Human Rights Nights. The sequel, B is for Bomb (2006), won the short film award at Cannes.

Artist talk: Carey McKenzie
Film: Cold Harbour
Time: October 9, 19:00 o'clock.
Location: Victoria 2
In connection with the screening there will be a conversation between the director Carey McKenzie and Tomas Alfred Røen.
Time: October 10, 21:00 o'clock.
Location: Ringen 6
In connection with the screening there will be an introduction from the director Carey McKenzie.