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Barakat is a must-see South African film Stalwart of South African screens Vinette Ebrahim plays Aisha Davids, a widow of two years who is preparing to tell her four sons she wants to remarry. Barakat plays out over the days before Eid-ul-Fitr, also affectionately known as Labarang in Cape Town. The opening scenes were surreal to me. I have lived in the area Barakat was shot in for most of my later childhood years, and still live here. I sat in awe seeing my childhood park and a famous tikka shop in the frames. Aisha is apprehensive about the announcement, as her fiance is a non-Muslim man- Dr Albertus “Bertie” Meyer (Leslie Fong). Aisha and Bertie are so plausible as an older couple finding love again with each other; you really do believe their courtship and subsequent engagement. ....
WHAT IT S ABOUT: A matriarch aims to bring together her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance. WHAT WE THOUGHT: Having just concluded our second Ramadaan amid the pandemic, I couldn t help but feel nostalgic watching the very familiar scenes of Cape Town s Muslim community on my screen. Barakat is a beautiful, local film that achieves precisely what Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon set out to do: To portray the richness of what it means to be from the Flats, but seen through a different lens. Barakat sees Aisha (Vinette Ebrahim) find love two years ....