Unseen World!

District 9, abbreviated D-9, is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, released on August 14, 2009 in North America by TriStar Pictures, starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and Robert Hobbs.

The film is based on Alive in Joburg, a 2005 short film directed by Blomkamp and produced by Sharlto Copley. Like the short film it’s based on, District 9 takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa, and poses analogies to the events that occured during the apartheid system enforced by South African government between 1948 and 1994. Much of the film is shot in a documentary-style, including a mix of interviews, news footage, and video from surveillance cameras. The title of the movie is a reference to District Six, a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa, declared a "whites only" area by the apartheid government in 1966, with a population of 60,000 forcibly relocated to Cape Flats, 25 kilometres away.