"In remote Patagonia, a 100-year-old community of Afrikaans Boers struggles to keep their language and culture alive, while longing to be reunited with their distant families in South Africa."

The Boers at the End of the World

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Documentary
Director:Richard Finn Gregory

In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is a family - the Dickasons - who speak a language from a country 7,000km to the east. They are part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans Boer community - South Africans of Dutch descent who sailed across the ocean to South America after the destruction of a war with the British. Today, less than 50 still speak the language and they struggle to keep their culture alive. Patriarch "Ty" Dickason, 82, is a cowboy who has never flown in a plane - and yet he yearns to one day visit the country of his blood before he and his compatriots pass away. This multiple SAFTA award-winning documentary is a portrait of the last days of the community - a parallel world where Afrikaans was never linked to Apartheid - and one family's journey to reconnect with South Africa.

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Original TitleBoere op die Aards Drempel
StatusReleased
Release DateAugust 5, 2015
Release Dates
South Africa:
Theatrical - Aug 5, 2015
Runtime1sa 25dk
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Origin CountrySouth Africa
Original LanguageAfrikaans
Spoken LanguagesAfrikaans, English, Español

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