South Africa, June 25 -- The 22nd Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will be held online and at selected cinemas in Johannesburg and Cape Town from 20 to 30 August 2020. This year, the festival will be freely available - for viewing on virtual platforms - to South Africans right across the country.

2020 Encounters Documentary Festival will premiere with the first South African screening of the highly-anticipated political feature Influence - a profile of 'morally slippery British reputation manager' Lord Timothy Bell of PR firm Bell Pottinger.

The investigative journalists and filmmakers Richard Poplack and Diana Neille, who directed the film, say they can't wait to see the response from South Africans. "In the ...