Digital Desperados Difficult Love

Difficult Love is a lively, personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today. This moving film features the life, photographs, work and friends of renowned photographer, Zanele Muholi, who often steps in front of the camera herself to present, reflect and interview other South African lesbians.

“If you Google black lesbians in South Africa... mostly it’s hate crimes against lesbians and curative rapes... brutal killings become the common thing. You hardly find books that talk about black lesbians and their families, their children, about black lesbians and education, about black lesbians taking over the movement in a way they fully understand; using art as means, about loves and lives and the living… so what makes this documentary different is that I have tried to tap into some of those elements.” Zanele Muholi