I, Afrikaner

Without courage, change is unbearable. Afrikaner Girl is the director's journey to understand her family’s unbreakable connection to the land. Documented over 9 years, it is a challenging portrait of 4 generations trapped between past and future. Central to the story is her 14 year-old niece, Shanel. As a product of post-Apartheid South Africa, Shanel embraces an African identity, but maintains strong ties to the land and her Afrikaner family. The two worlds she inhabits are in bloody conflict with one another, yet her life brings segregated worlds together, showing a path to true reconciliation.