S3 Ep38 Jonty Acton on “The Reconciliation” (Film)

S3 Ep38 Jonty Acton on “The Reconciliation” (Film)

March 23, 2026 · 20 min · Season 3 · Episode 38

About this episode

Jonty Acton discusses the film 'The Reconciliation', exploring its themes of change and the costs of reconciliation in South Africa.

Over the last 30 years or so, we have seen many films and TV productions that have, in different ways, looked at the issues of South Africa's troubled past, but very few have looked from the white, English-speaking perspective. The Reconciliation is an art-house drama about people who believe they’ve changed, until change asks something real of them. Anchored in a particularly South African context, the film explores the true costs of reconciliation when holding on to the past begins to...

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