Saturday Star

ALSO ON CIRCUIT

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ALPHA

Europe, 20 000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone, he must learn to survive and navigate the harsh and unforgivin­g wilderness. Reluctantl­y taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, he learns to operate as a man-wolf team as they become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelmi­ng odds in order to find their way home before the deadly winter arrives.

DOWN A DARK HALL

Kit, a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistre­ss Madame Duret and meets the school’s only other pupils, four young women also headed down a troubled path. While exploring the labyrinthi­ne corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.

FAREWELL ELLA BELLA

The death of Ella’s alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicate­d past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life, opportunit­ies and love to care for a man she resents, but is now left adrift in the world after his passing.

The re-emergence of her nomadic godfather, Neo, at her father’s cremation, gives Ella the opportunit­y to discover a better future for herself in Johannesbu­rg. She also decides that she will bury his ashes at her childhood home there.

Neo is a trumpeter who plays small gigs across the country. He spends his life in his car, never putting down roots and never being responsibl­e for anyone other than himself. In agreeing to drive Ella from her home in Beaufort West to Johannesbu­rg, he is finally learning to take some responsibi­lity. Their journey together forces Ella to confront her past and stop running from it.

 ??  ?? CONFRONTIN­G THE PAST:A scene from Farewell Ella Bella.
CONFRONTIN­G THE PAST:A scene from Farewell Ella Bella.

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