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Drama

While You Weren't Looking

2015, Oct 28

1h 44m

Dez and Terri, a mixed-race couple married 20 years and adoptive parents, they are the trailblazing lesbians of the New South Africa. But, have these freedoms guaranteed them happiness? Asanda, their 18 year old adopted daughter, is the poster child for South Africa’s diversity but describes herself as “an experiment”, being made up as she goes along. She meets Shado, an enigmatic Tommy Boy from Khayalitsha, a township on the edge of Cape Town, and a different picture of the New South Africa emerges.

Directed by

Catherine Stewart

Written by

Amy Jephta, Nodi Murphy, Vanessa Herman, Matthew Krouse