 The film premièred in South Africa at the 26th Durban International Film Festival ( <unk> ) on 17 July 2005 where it won the Best South African Film Award . It was released at 29 South African movie theatres on 22 July . Events to help promote the film included <unk> @-@ <unk> dances in various South African market places , and the production crew holding a contest in which South African schoolchildren would have to research a lost community and the winners would get to meet the actors . 
