A Dry White Season

“One learns to look a certain way in order to resist,” writes Bell Hooks—a statement that stands on its own, yet is tailor-made for the heart of this political drama: In Soweto, one murder follows another after police forces brutally crushed the peaceful uprising of Black students against the apartheid regime’s racist education policies in 1976. Tracing the line of apartheid repression, A DRY WHITE SEASON raises questions of witnessing, responsibility, and complicity, and critically addresses the cruelty of white complicity. An examination of competing modes of perception, constantly asking when violence is even perceived, when it serves as a stabilizer of the racist order, and when the line between legal construct and true justice becomes blurred.
(Lien May Lucas)