The Boers at the End of the World

10.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 85 min
  • Premiere: 2015. August 5.

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to keep their culture alive. Patriarch "Ty" Dickason, 82, is a cowboy who has never flown in a plane - and yet he yearns to one day visit the country of his blood before he and his compatriots pass away. This multiple SAFTA award-winning documentary is a portrait of the last days of the community - a parallel world where Afrikaans was never linked to Apartheid - and one family's journey to reconnect with South Africa.

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Camera

Richard Finn Gregory

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Kelly Scott

Producer

Sound

Louis Nel

Original Music Composer

Rian Zietsman

Original Music Composer

Daniel Eppel

Sound Designer

Camera

Richard Finn Gregory

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Production

Kelly Scott

Producer

Sound

Louis Nel

Original Music Composer

Rian Zietsman

Original Music Composer

Daniel Eppel

Sound Designer