The Boers at the End of the World
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.
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Cast & Crew
Production
Kelly Scott
Directing
Richard Finn Gregory
Camera
Richard Finn Gregory
Sound
Louis Nel
Rian Zietsman
Daniel Eppel
Fun Facts of Movie
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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