re:collection

re:collection

By Dane DODDS

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Documentary - Production 2026

The ?Khomani San seek to rebury their ancestors, whose remains are held in South Africa’s national museum. Exhumed for race science at the turn of the twentieth century, these bodies were used to legitimise systems such as apartheid and Nazism, and to justify violence on a global scale. The film follows a contemporary struggle to confront historical injustice, as the ideologies that once shaped these crimes begin to resurface.

    • Year of production
    • 2026
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SOUTH AFRICA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Dane DODDS
    • Producer(s)
    • Antoinette ENGEL (Far Horizon Films)
    • Synopsis
    • The ǂKhomani San seek to rebury their ancestors, whose remains are held in South Africa’s national museum. Exhumed for race science at the turn of the twentieth century, these bodies were used to legitimise systems such as apartheid and Nazism, and to justify violence on a global scale. The film follows a contemporary struggle to confront historical injustice, as the ideologies that once shaped these crimes begin to resurface.