Guth Gafa Documentary Festival 2008

Angels in the Dust
USA, 2007, 94 min
Director: Louise Hogarth

Fri 16th • Óstán Loch Altan • 7:30pm
Sun 18th • Óstán Loch Altan • 7:00pm

Angels in the Dust is a story of healing in the face of a staggering crisis that is leaving entire South African villages decimated, and thousands of children orphaned. By the year 2010, 100 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be infected with HIV/AIDS and 40 million children will be orphaned as a result of the virus. In South Africa alone, six million adults and children are infected.
But amid the despair there is hope. This is the inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who—with her husband and two daughters—fearlessly walked away from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to establish Boikarabelo (formerly Botshabelo), an extraordinary village and school that provides shelter, food, and education to more than 550 South African children.
Angels in the Dust depicts a courageous, self-sacrificing, fiercely loving woman who chooses a spiritual path over a material one; it tells of the life-changing power of one compassionate heart. For a nation overwhelmed by an epidemic of HIV/AIDS, orphans, rape, violence, and apartheid's legacy of social and political unrest, the film offers a clear pathway of hope and a replicable paradigm for the future.