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A touching, real-life exploration of one of South Africa’s most celebrated couples, showing the deep personal cost that brought South Africa to its current triumphant harmony. Through interviews with the couple, the film becomes a discovery of the beauty of love in a changing and damaged country.
A story of Hope, between the Try Line and the Streets, a gripping tale of family, loyalty, and rugby as Family and Rugby . This powerful drama explores the complex life of a young rugby star caught between the allure of the sport and the harsh realities of his township.
Set in 1976 Apartheid-era South Africa and based on a true story, this powerful film tells the story of a young man caught between his father's wishes and his own dreams. After his father is brutally killed, 16-year-old Jeremiah discovers that he had been delivering secret letters from freedom fighters in exile and prison on his rounds as a postman. When he learns that his father's last wish was for him to take over this work and continue delivering the letters, Jeremiah — who dreams of joining the police force — faces an impossible choice.
A drama full of intrigue and conflict about a ambitious medical student and his experience with love, drugs and communism.
The shocking story behind the murder of Brett Kebble. "204" means a full and permanent indemnity from prosecution in exchange for truthful testimony. Brett Kebble was a charismatic South African businessman whose meteoric rise to fame and fortune in the mining world was followed by a startling fall from grace. His life ultimately ended in a hail of bullets on a road in northern Johannesburg in 2005. But the story behind his death is so bizarre that it could come straight out of a mystery thriller. In this documentary, the three self-confessed killers, as well as Jackie Selebi, Glen Agliotti, Piet Byleveld, and the Kebble family, are interviewed, exploring a fascinating tale of greed, corruption, fraud, and murder. Exclusive first-hand accounts of the murder are included, and the belly of South Africa's dark underworld is revealed.
With Nelson Mandela freed from prison, South Africa is changing fast - but big challenges lie ahead. In the township of Soweto children have taken charge of their schools, trading formal (albeit poorly-funded) education for incitement of rebellion against the injustices between the black and the white populations.
A teenage girl, Isabel, and her younger brother Joshua, have always been each other’s refuge in a small, mining town of South Africa, but Isabel loses grip of the relationship, when Joshua endures a violent initiation at an all-boys’ high school and withdraws from her. With no one to turn to, Isabel is forced to find resilience within herself and to call Joshua to reflect on who he is becoming.
fantasy tale about a young Zulu who leaves his village to go to the city, falls in love with the new music he hears there, and returns home to form a Zulu jazz band. The South African production and distribution company African Films followed up the success of Zonk! with Song of Africa. This is a fantasy tale about a young Zulu who leaves his village to go to the city, falls in love with the new music he hears there, and returns home to form a Zulu jazz band – which then goes to the city to compete with other bands, and comes out on top. As in the earlier films, the impact of American jazz and popular music is enormous. Like African Jim and Zonk!, Song of Africa draws on the best talent from the townships. Director Emil Nofal and director of photography Dave Millin ensure high production values, making it an above-average B-movie.
In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre or installations, but are seen as an important intermediary to understanding the world. Taking Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ as an example, he feels that the prisoners in the cave believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were controlled by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto walls by firelight were the beginning of mankind’s understanding of the meaning of the world.
This shortfilm follows Noel and River, two individuals struggling to move on from a past relationship. Through parallel therapy sessions with Avery, their therapist, they reveal their versions of the breakup, each feeling broken by the other. When they unexpectedly cross paths at therapy, they are forced to confront their past and face the truth about their relationship.
South African TV Movie
A farming family led by Grandpa Smit relocates to Cape Town in pursuit of a new life. Despite their limited means, their unity and unwavering pride become their pillars of strength.
Piet inherits the title of Lord from one of his forefathers, but wants to have it revoked as to not hamper his chances in the upcoming election. However, the only man who can revoke the title is his opponent, Sir David.
The story explores how this toxic dynamic has profoundly shaped the protagonist’s artistic voice, influencing both the themes and emotional intensity of her music. As past wounds resurface and unresolved tensions escalate, the film examines the fragile boundaries between creative inspiration and personal trauma.
After eighteen years of failure, Penelope Pringle enters The Grand Regional Symposium of Taste one last time, armed with a peculiar pâté that just might change her fate forever.
"The Duality" is an evocative essay film exploring liminality through Lake Fundudzi and Murena, a young Christian Venda man. Juxtaposing tradition and modernity, the sacred and secular, the film delves into his introspective journey, challenging beliefs and prompting reflection on transformation, spirituality, and the fluid boundaries of identity.
Barry Hilton's First Stand-up Special, Recorded live at Berties - Randburg Waterfront!
A documentary about the tragic life of Charmaine Mare, a young girl who had come to Cape Town in search of work to help provide financial support for her poverty stricken parents. Mare arrived in Cape Town in January 2013 and stayed with a friend Kristina White in Kraaifontein. But, for a few days she would be left alone with Johannes de Jager, the boyfriend of her friend's mother. In those few days, court records show that Mare frequently had to plead with him not to make sexual advances, and even recorded their conversations. Sadly, nobody listened to her pleas for help, with tragic consequences.
Locke meets Donnie Darko in a modern reinvention of the chamber film. A film made for a disenfranchised youth who have built the bars of the isolation with ones and zeroes.
Young Muslim transman Adam Harry dreams of becoming a commercial pilot. After escaping pernicious family persecution, he is armed with a Kerala government scholarship, a growing fanbase, and media presence. Will this be enough to help Adam defy bureaucratic discrimination and continue his training to become the first transgender commercial pilot of Indian origin?
Curtain Call follows a group of young actors as they navigate the chaos, conflict, and camaraderie of a stage production. As the film reveals, the real drama unfolds long before the curtain rises.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.
It follows two children as they navigate through a campsite on a warm afternoon.
Governed from an impenetrable hilltop, Mapungubwe became the business centre for all of Africa’s trade which, between the years 950 AD to 1290 AD, had become well integrated into the world economy and thrived on trade with the East Indian Trade Route attracting traders from as far afield as Persia, Arabia, India and China. Join John Matshikiza is his investigation of these mysterious archeological ruins.
South African Movie
A Young Ducktail Unwittingly Kidnaps a Young Bride and Then Falls in Love With Her.
Many Zimbabweans have fled their economically stricken country, but they do send a lot of money home: in 2021 remittances totaled more than a billion dollars. One such migrant is Frank, who has emigrated to Cape Town. His brother Miles and sister Portia live in the UK, one in London, the other in Luton. His other sister still lives in Zimbabwe, but their mother MaMlilo thinks that she should also emigrate.
Three students are on the verge of being expelled for being mischievous. Together scheme a brilliant plan to prohibit the rector from expelling them with the promise of a huge donation from Piet's aunt. To authenticate the promise, Frederik Burgers are dressed up to look like his aunt and to visit the rector. The rector were immediately impressed with this impressive woman and falls in love with her, until the real aunt arrives......
Magda needs to see the gynecologist for her annual checkup. It gives us a look at the life of a middle-aged Afrikaans woman.
Nathi & Karabo share a closeness that ends outside the room's four walls. Through an exploratory journey of identity, freedom, and desire, we get to know the characters and the complexities of living as a black queer South African man today. 4 Walls is an attempt to portray a particularly common experience shared by many in the South African LGBTQI+ community.
In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty-eight years of imprisonment. A Question of Madness tells the extraordinary human story of a man, born of a black mother, but classified white, who travelled the world in hopeless search of sanctuary - eventually returning to the land of apartheid to wreak vengeance on the one who symbolized the racism which had haunted his life.
A young man, battling a mental illness, decides to take his own life. Then he meets two strangers on a bridge.
An engaging documentary showcasing the incredible story of UFC fighter Dricus du Plessis.
Abraham, a dedicated husband and father, struggles to provide for his young wife, Katie, and their four-year-old daughter. But, through his creative determination, he finds patronage in Jong Jans and Jong's wife, Almeri. Abraham and Katie settle into their new home, working for Jong and Almeri, but Katie's battles with mental illness and alcoholism rock the boat. Abraham staunchly supports his wife, but his own ambitions as an artist make him restless. Abraham is a dreamer who wishes to rise above his station in life and make his mark on the world, but the realities of his circumstances get in the way of happiness. In Afrikaans language with English subtitles.
Through the eyes and lens of the renowned photojournalist, Felix Dlangamandla this film offers a personal retelling of the Marikana massacre. Felix talks candidly about the tension, trauma, violence and loss often associated with news photography. Through intimate conversations the documentary explores the complex motivations which compel Felix to continue his quest to “bear witness to truth” despite the myriad perils involved. Joined by former colleagues the film offers a glimpse into Felix’s distinctive approach to capturing photographs which have had a profound impact on South African press freedom and contributed greatly to international photojournalism.
A journalist, suddenly without work and money. A rock star, licking his wounds after his fiancé cheated on him. And the beautiful, beautiful West Coast with its unique charm. The bestseller Die tragiese saak van Pamina Vermaak, by the journalist and writer Annie Klopper, was published in 2018 and is now being made into a movie. Filming of this romcom has started, and the cast includes fresh young talent and various South African legends.
An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbor in a time of need, despite the language barrier between them. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.
Nelson Mandela and his fellow ex-prisoners recall their incarceration on South Africa's Robben Island. For three decades, the island housed not only political prisoners but convicts, lepers and the mentally ill. Yet amidst the hopelessness, Nelson Mandela and his comrades devised strategies and subterfuges with which they transformed life on the island, while the vision of a new South Africa began to take shape.
Filmmaker Dumisani Phakathi returns to his old neighborhood. With a camera on his shoulder, he engages with friends to discuss relationships, sex and love. Strong characters like Phumla and Timothy expose their emotions as they talk intimately about the realities of their street and the choices they have been forced to make. It 's a rock and roll journey that reveals the gaps between everyday life and the AIDS education campaigns that often talk past the very people they are supposed to address. It is the recognition of the people's will to survive in the age of AIDS.
#WeAreDyingHere chronicles the journey of three soldiers forced to survive in a war that they did not choose. As the war against women rages around them, they attempt to find solace to process their pain under the constant threat of their enemy lurking in the shadows. #WeAreDyingHere engages directly with the violent culture of harassment, abuse, rape and femicide, it is a necessary pause, an exhale and insight into the experience of living as a woman.
A moving look at how we attach narratives and memories to physical places, Before They Sold the Sky explores director Kai Reynolds’ family history and the impact of forced removals under apartheid.
Two people find unexpected love during COVID-19, but their connection faces a devastating turn when one of them contracts the virus.
Believing he has killed a Policeman,a young Ducktail finds sanctuary on a farm, where he pretends to be the long-lost son of the blind farmer. The impostor blackmails the family into silence, knowing that their real son is in jail - and that if he reveals the truth, it will kill the farmer.
Long-distance lovers turn their virtual romance into reality as they meet face-to-face for the first time and immerse themselves in their real worlds.
A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow
South African Film
Dramatisation of the novel of the same name written by Sindiwe Magona about Amy Biehl, an American journalist murdered in Cape Town in 1993, and the 2012 play based on it. Based on the intimate one-woman play staged by singer, actress and playwright, Thembi Mtshali, the film seeks an understanding from the mother as she explains the direct consequences of apartheid, which influenced her son's actions.
Captain Talia Valentine is an ambitious young astronaut, whose return to Earth is interrupted when she crash-lands on a lonely asteroid. Laika is a little stray dog from the streets of Moscow, who has been stranded on that same asteroid for a very long time... Talia is in a one-track mind about finding her way off of this forsaken rock. Laika just seems thrilled to have someone to play with her. But when fixes fail, and unexpected communications bridge the expanse between Talia and the Earth, she realises that Laika may be the key to finding her way home - wherever that ends up being.