Sea Point Days, a feature-length documentary film by Emmy award-winning South African filmmaker Francois Verster, has been invited to hold its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival starting on Thursday, 4 September.

The film, produced by Lucinda Englehart and Neil Brandt of Luna Films, looks at life at Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade and at its municipal pools. Sea Point Days not only celebrates this unusual and beautiful space, but also paints a deeply reflective picture of old white South Africa in transition and the frictions of a society in flux.

The film marks a stylistic departure for Verster, whose previous films include The Mothers’ House, A Lion’s Trail and When the War is Over. He describes it as his most personal film so far: “The film aims from a very personal perspective to give shape to some of the emotional contradictions of being South African at this point. Rather than working from a character or a number of characters’ point of view, it tries to integrate social, physical and perhaps spiritual elements within the area in different ways.”

Sea Point Days was funded by ITVS International, the Jan Vrijman Fund, the Visons Sud Est, the National Film and Video Foundation and Spier Films. The film has already been invited to other high profile festivals.