Set against the big skies and wide-open plains of South Africa's semi-desert Great Karoo region, Flatland wraps crime thriller conventions around a caustic commentary on race, gender and class politics in the post-Mandela “rainbow nation”. Writer-director Jenna Bass initially set out to write a feminist contemporary western with her third feature, but ended up with a hybrid mix of picaresque road movie and emotionally rich, female-driven character study.

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