Lien se Lankstaanskoene

Directed by Andre Odendaal

With Carmen Pretorius, Franci Swanepoel, Tiaan Kelderman, Elize Cawood and Fiks Mahola

This coming-of-age drama tells about a high school girl who resorts to begging to support her family. Lien Jooste’s life falls apart when her father is arrested for fraud and her mother develops a drinking problem. They lose everything and go from being an upstanding, affluent family living in a nice neighbourhood to a broken mess – living in a small flat and struggling to get by. Due to her mother’s drinking, Lien has to take on the role of mother for both her mom and her younger brother Braam.