South Africans have seen on TV pictures of burnt university buildings and protesting students clashing with police. Now film director Aryan Kaganof places viewers in the room with students at the centre of the movement known as Open Stellenbosch.Opening Stellenbosch will be screened next month at the 18th annual Encounters film festival.The film gives viewers a "fly on the wall" view to the movement, giving outsiders a glimpse of how students think and operate.Kaganof said he did this by firstly addressing the role of white students in the movement and then showing how students decided on "the tactic of disruption".He said: "I wanted to show the humanness and not the raging beasts... The media mostly (highlights) the violence but this film has scenes where the same students who were on the streets clashing with police are also seen sitting down and rationally articulating their (plight)."SA universities score in subject rankingsSouth African universities have received favourable rankings in a survey of about 77000 academics.Stellenbosch ‘purple face’ commission starts its workMore than a month after the Stellenbosch University “purple face” controversy‚ a commission of enquiry has been set up to investigate the incident.Opening Stellenbosch is one of 57 films that will be screened at the largest and longest-running documentary film festival on the African continent, Encounters.Kaganof said the festival was "essential" for independent film-makers like himself who are not in commercial filming."Without this film festival my work would probably never get screened in South Africa," he said.Festival director Darryl Els said of the 400 film submissions received, they narrowed it down to 57 documentaries with the line-up boasting strong South African and African short films.The Encounters film festival starts on Thursday in Johannesburg and in Cape Town and runs until June 12...