The 32nd Durban International Film Festival (DIFF)



When: 21st - 31st July 2011

Where: Durban, South Africa

Website: DIFF

South Africa’s longest-running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival runs across 12 days at the end of July, presenting over 250 screenings of current films from around the world, with strong focus on South African and African cinema. Screenings take place throughout Durban including township areas where cinemas are non-existent.

I love this time of the year because I get to a diverse range of movies and also support local arts.

I type up this blog minutes before I leave to go and see my first movie of the film festival; The Tree of Life.

Some places showing movies for the festival include; main cinema's such as Gateway, Musgrave and Suncoast. As well as the likes of The Royal Hotel and the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre.

Some movies that I am realy looking forward to are: Three, Brownian and a Woody Allen movie to close the festival - Midnight in Paris.

The DIFF can be followed on twitter at: DIFF

Also you can follow my updates via LEE FOLKARD.

A Man Walks into a Room

"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him.

He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him.

If you listen, he'll tell you how he got there.

How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up.

If you listen, he'll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect.

And then he'll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn't perfect.

We're flawed, because we want so much more.

We're ruined, because we get these things, and wish for what we had."