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Alive in Joburg

CANADA · 2005

Alive in Joburg

Neill Blomkamp

alien invasion social commentary xenophobia apartheid allegory documentary realism

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Synopsis

A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.

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