Everything Must Fall (2018)

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  • documentary

Logline

An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the most militant national revolt since the country’s first democratic elections in 1994.

Year

2018

Type

Documentary

Format

Feature Film

Country

South Africa

Language

English

Runtime

84 minutes

Stage

Finished

Plot Summary

The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist. When Habib’s efforts to contain the protest fail, he brings 1000 police on to campus. There are dire consequences for the young leaders. By blending dramatic unfolding action with a multi-protagonist narrative, much of the drama lies in the internal struggles the activists have around the weight of leadership. Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation, shared across the generational divide, that somehow these youth have reached breaking point and won’t back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation that previous generations had long given up on.

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Cast

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Crew

Rehad Desai portrait

Rehad Desai

Director

Rehad Desai portrait

Rehad Desai

Producer

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Grant Clark

Co-Producer

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Zivia Desai Keiper

Producer

Anita Khanna portrait

Anita Khanna

Producer

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Maarten Schmidt

Co-Producer

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Jannous Aukema

Composer

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Geert Veuskens

Editor

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Megan Gill

Editor

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Arya Lalloo

Editor

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Nic Hofmeyer

Cinematographer

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Jacqueline Jones

Editor

Companies

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Uhuru Productions

Producer

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National Film and Video Foundation

Financier

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