The adventurer Helge Hjelland has set out to cross the african continent by canoe.
Along his journey Helge picks up Joseph, an illegal refugee from South Sudan without any identity papers. Together they become partners in a journey through a South Africa still struggling with its shadows from apartheid.
It is a film about the diverse meetings through the African continent. It is a portrait of the best and worst in human kind. And it is also a refugee story, set in a country still struggling to get out of its shadows from apartheid.
In this expedition Helge Hjelland will need all his social skills to navigate between the poor refugees whom escaped from white landlords in Lesotho, and the dominating white population in the Orange Free State.
Geography:
Far up in the Drakensberg Mountains is the source of the longest river in South Africa, the powerful Orange River, which stretches through the desert and into the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
Towards the east the Tugela River tumbles down the worlds second largest waterfall, the Tugela Falls, towards the crocodiles in the tropic forests underneath and into the Indian Ocean.
Together the two rivers divide the African continent with its spectacular beauty. But the rivers do not only offer a varied nature. They also run through the varied and complex heritage and culture of South Africa.
The documentary series is due to premiere in 23 th & 30th may at TV2 and 15th & 16th june at DR.
AWARDS: Winner of the WT Award at the 11th WT Os International Film Festival 2010. http://midtsiden.no/vann-ny-pris
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