Come Back, Africa

Effective in transporting us to South Africa and giving us a window into the brutality of apartheid, perhaps less effective in telling its story. Regardless of whether you see this as a documentary or not (personally, I didn't), using non-professional actors resulted in a lot of stilted, wooden scenes, something which took away from the experience. On the other hand, the humanistic spirit of the thing, showing the grotesquely unfair "pass laws" and poor living conditions, can't be denied. We see cultural elements like music and dancing, but also a conversation about politics and the human condition, which I thought was fantastic. Great work from Lionel Rogosin, though a shame he didn't make a similar film in Mississippi at the time.