Undated: A still image from director Khalid Shamis’ latest documentary, The Colonel’s Stray Dogs, showing him and his father Ashur Shamis going through top secret files unearthed in Ashur s study at home in London. (Image courtesy of Khalid Shamis)
In his first feature-length documentary released in 2011,
The Imam and I, Cape Town-based filmmaker Khalid Shamis, 46, told the story of his maternal grandfather Imam Abdullah Haron. A prominent anti-apartheid activist and cleric, the imam was murdered by the South African Police’s notorious Security Branch while in detention.
The filmmaker’s next venture is a similar ode to a family political drama, but this time it is about his father, the political activist and journalist Ashur Shamis, 72. Its title,
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