Film Screening: Oliver Tambo's London Recruits

Awarded: Best Documentary , Joburg Film Festival 2024; Best Pan African Film, Simon Mabhunu Sabela Award 2024. Official selections: New York African Film Festival 2024; Encounters South Africa International Documentary Festival 2024; Mostra de Cinemas Afrikanos 2024; Manifiesta 2024

Filmmaker Gordon Main and his team, who made this powerful documentary drama, Oliver Tambo's London Recruits, have organised a 'People's Release' of the film in the UK. Ruskin House Film Screen is pleased to be taking part in this promotion, which by-passes the control exercised by the major film distributors.

This internationally acclaimed film tells the incredible true story of 'ordinary' people who risked everything to keep hope alive. Their extraordinary acts of international solidarity - undertaking important and dangerous work - made a vital contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle at a time of severe repression in 1970s South Africa.

After the trial of Nelson Mandela and other leaders in 1963-64, heavy police surveillance curtailed ANC resistance to the apartheid régime. But white visitors to South Africa could move about freely and carry out secret work. The book, London Recruits (2012), edited by Ken Keable, contains fascinating first-hand accounts by some of the Recruits, which led to the making of this film.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with an invited speaker

Host or Publisher Ruskin House Film Screen