Farmlands

The documentary takes up attacks on farmers in South Africa. Lauren Southern made it and narrates it herself. The work centres on violence against Boer farmers. Southern argues that this violence points to a coming genocide. That argument is the film’s own; it is not an established finding. Researchers and journalists have treated the narrative as a conspiracy theory. The film’s statement that the killings happen every single day does not match the records either. AfriForum counted seventy two such murders in 2017 and fifty four in 2018. The work is built largely on interviews. Southern is both the one asking and the one narrating in it. Lauren Southern’s Canadian documentary of 2018 runs seventy three minutes.