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The Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Cape Town and in Stellenbosch in the Wine Country of South Africa.

The main objective of the CWFF is to provide a window on world cinemas. During the past fifteen years, filmmakers around the world have explored the quality of their medium. Revivals in diverse film cultures such as China, Iran, South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Argentina and Taiwan brought joy to movie lovers and film students across the globe. In Africa and Central and South America, new filmmakers emerged who selectively engaged with the themes of their forebears, for example, Salles and Meirelles in Brazil, Gonzáles Inárritu and Del Toro in Mexico, Dani Kouyaté in Burkina Faso and Abderrahmane Sissako from Mauritania. Great auteur filmmakers became darlings of serious film buffs and students around the world: Bruno Dumont, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Michael Haneke, Francois Ozon, Abbas Kiarostami and many more.

Unfortunately South African film lovers had few opportunities to see these films. At the moment commercial Hollywood products dominate up to 99% of screen time in our multiplexes. The situation on local and pay television is not much better and mainstream video shops simply cater for Hollywood blockbuster releases.