On the Couch: Encounters Documentary Festival returns with Oscar contenders on the bill
Lunch with Pippa Hudson · 3 June 2026 · 14m
Speaker 1: On the couch. Today we're putting the focus on upcoming Encounters, South African International Documentary Speaker 1: Festival, which returns this week for its twenty eighth edition. From tomorrow until the fourteenth Speaker 1: of June, there are award winning films, international guests, master classes and discussions happening in Speaker 1: Cape Town and joe Berg, and among this year's highlights are two documentaries already being Speaker 1: tipped as possible OSCAR contenders, including a film about Archbishop Desmon dUtu and another that Speaker 1: has audiences talking about the changing relationship between humans and wildlife in the Arctic. Joining Speaker 1: us in studio to tell us more is the festival's publicist, Joy Sapika Joy. A Speaker 1: very good afternoon to you and welcome to lunch with Papa Hudson. Hi, Hi, nice Speaker 1: to be here, Nice to be here. Did I get your surname correct? Speaker 2: You said it perfectly. Speaker 1: I was so busy greeting you and welcoming and making sure you welcome and sitting Speaker 1: forgot to ask you how to pronounce your surname. Speaker 2: I've done it. Speaker 1: So Encounters has grown into Africa's leading document try festival, Joy over nearly three decades. Speaker 1: Now, what makes the twenty twenty six edition particularly exciting. Speaker 2: The curation, the curation putting together of the films. Every year when we curate the Speaker 2: festival, we look at the world as it is now and we try and select Speaker 2: films internationally from Africa and locally that reflect the kind of world that we're living Speaker 2: in at the moment. But this year there's a slight spin in that even though Speaker 2: the world is crazy right literally, yeah, we've just you know,…
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