Long Night’s Journey Into Day takes you inside post-apartheid South Africa to give you an intimate look at a country’s attempts to heal itself with truth as the balm. It reveals a South Africa trying to forge a lasting peace after 40 years of government by the most notorious system of racial segregation since Nazi Germany. The documentary studies South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid’s reign.
Awards:
- DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, Academy Award Nomination 2001
- National Emmy Award Nomination 2002
- GRAND JURY AWARD, Sundance 2000
- PEACE FILM PRIZE & BERLINER ZEITUNG READER’S JURY PRIZE, Berlin Film Festival 2000
- GOLDEN SPIRE AWARD, San Francisco International Film Festival 2000
- CRITICS’ PRIZE FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY, Hot Docs 2000
- IN THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM AWARD, Jerusalem Film Festival 2000
- AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY & DOCUMENTARY JURY AWARD, Newport International Film Festival 2000
- FILM AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, International Human Rights Film Festival 2001
- BEST FILM, International Human Rights Film Festival, Nuremberg 2001
- BEST DOCUMENTARY, Director’s Guild of America Nomination 2002