While You Weren’t Looking
New York African Film Festival 2016
May 4 - 10, 2016
The changing landscape of post-Apartheid South African politics and lifestyles is portrayed through two queer relationships: a successful black real-estate woman who is cheating on her white wife and their bohemian daughter, who’s dating a gender-nonconfirming woman in the Khayelitsha township.
Catherine Stewart’s feature debut takes a look at South Africa through the experiences of a cross section of queer relationships in Cape Town. The changing landscape of post-Apartheid South African politics and lifestyles is portrayed through two central relationships: a successful black real-estate agent who is cheating on her white wife; and their bohemian daughter, who’s dating a gender-nonconfirming woman in the Khayelitsha township. Beautifully shot on locations in and around Cape Town, with a stellar South African cast and a soundtrack of great local music, While You Weren’t Looking wrestles with the complexities of queerness and its overarching intricacies of class and fading relationships.
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