@article{1356155,
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      author = {Verster, François.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356155},
      title = {The mothers' house [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      abstract = {Astonishingly intimate, this festival film is a record of  four years in the life of Miche, a charming and precocious  teenager growing into womanhood in a township outside Cape  Town. She has to face not only life in a "colored"  community beset by gangsterism and drug abuse, but also the  toughness and anger within her own family : three  generations of women who have survived the struggle against  Apartheid, the lack of supportive men, the threat of HIV  and dim prospects for a better life.The film is honest  without being maudlin. Miche is in many ways an ordinary  high school girl: she has her ears pierced for the first  time, hosts her first dancing party, and finds her first  boyfriend. But having to bear responsibility for her HIV  positive mother, and the well-being of her younger siblings  ,forces her to be strong beyond her years. When the  pressure becomes too great she leaves home, but finally  realizes the love that binds them, and returns.},
      recid = {1356155},
      pages = {1 online resource (77 min.).},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      year = {2006},
}