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Documentary about the longest running industrial dispute in South Africa between British Tyre and Rubber's BTR Sarmcol and their black employees, represented by their union the MAWU of which two shop stewards, Simon Ngubane and Phineas Sibeya, are interviewed.
A documentary about the devastating economic ripple effected by the closure of the DRD gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa.
A short film put together by a Grade 10 Drama class for their teacher who is leaving the school, created in the style of well-known sitcom 'The Office'.
South African Movie
A woman asleep begins to dream. It is a dream that distorts her perception of time and space in relation to her mundane daily tasks—an illusion that evokes a surreal experience of the self.
Rite of initiation of a Sangoma: medium, healer or sorcerer, which takes place in a neighborhood of Soweto.
Somewhere along the outskirts of Johannesburg. Milo, a young illegal miner descends down into another abandoned mine, for another day of scavenging. Everything is going fine until his companion Canary, Sully, escapes from his cage and flies off into a closed off area of the mine. Milo timidly ventures into the unknown to retrieve his canary but gets trapped in a deeper part of the mine. He finds himself face to face with something far more frightening, something ancient, that had been waiting….
When a Zulu woman's girlfriend tries to cement their relationship with marriage, she is cursed by a mysterious man at a house party, which forces her to go back into her past making her choose between her culture and her identity.
Through old letters, Merle revisits her past as an anti-Apartheid activist, which fractured her relationship with her mother forever. At the same time, she faces her privilege in today's South Africa and her own relationship with her daughter.
In a future Britain where every family is restricted to one child, a rebellious teenager must learn to work with his desperate father to keep a baby hidden from two agents dealing with population control.
In this meditation on migration, loss of language, and the transcendence of reimagined forms of communication, filmmaker Abul Ajak explores how cultural identities are not fixed but always in transition through her relationship with her grandmothers.
In love with the ocean, a father and son reflect on what it means to represent South Africa on the world stage as a professional surfer.
When a potentially devastating new virus emerges in early 2020, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rehad Desai is already following a vaccine clinical trial that could finally end the decades-long HIV pandemic. Widening his lens to trace this "tale of two pandemics," Rehad confronts the harsh reality that, while antiviral drugs are vital, eliminating the accelerating threat to humanity from emerging diseases requires making those drugs available to all, while also tackling the poverty, malnutrition and lack of access to healthcare that are fuelling the rise of dangerous new pathogens - and the clock is ticking.
Filmed with a phone camera during the lockdown in South Africa, one filmmaker contemplates creating within a place that never changes. The documentary focuses on her home, La Casa Azul, a tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Kahlo was his source of inspiration when he became disabled during the turf wars in Cape Town in 1966. The documentary reflects on representation in cinema and responds to the challenge of creative creation during the pandemic.
“Black to USSR” opens a multi-episode epic about the dialogue between Africa and Russia. The project was launched in january 2022. it focuses on doctors, businessmen, politicians from the south african republic and mozambique. significantly, almost all of them are graduates of soviet higher educational institutions. one of the protagonists of the first episode is nelson mandela’s close associate and angela davis’s friend mosima gabriel tokyo sexwale, a businessman with an amazing political career.
In South African townships oppressed by unemployment, crime, drugs, violence, HIV and Aids, Township Yogi follows five people who transform themselves through yoga, and documents the impact that yoga has on their families, and communities.
When the global Covid-19 pandemic breaks out and South Africa goes into hard lock down, some of the worst affected members of society are migrants and refugees, who are ineligible for government assistance. Nyasha, a lesbian migrant from Zimbabwe creates and intricate network of aid, for her fellow LGBTQIA+ migrant community: a group of people she has come to call her new family.
Shows healing and religion amongst the Barolong, a Bantu tribe of South Africa. Christianity has combined with ancestor worship, and churchgoers secretly use witch doctors when in trouble. In black South Africa there is a massive, expanding movement of ecstatic healing sects, which the film explores in detail, looking at their prophets, rites and political implications.
In a futuristic world, an average guy with a jellybean-loving sweet tooth waits in line for a new limited flavour release, but fortune presents him with a quest to instead steal the rare flavoured jelly candy from under the nose of a jellybean-plantation-farmer-giant who lives in the sky.
Life, love, long distance, identity and the pieces in between. This is a love letter to resilience and about people who choose each other no matter what.
Womxn : Working is a portrait of Nosipho Vidima, a sex work activist and feminist from South Africa as well as her comrades who are engaged in a struggle to decriminalize sex work in their country. Facing discrimination and marginalization due to their chosen profession, these women are taking the fight to change the law to the streets and protesting in the halls of legislation where they lobby. Currently many sex workers are victims of violence, police brutality and rejection by their communities. The decriminalization of their trade will mean an improved status and better access.
Security cameras follow the lives of two boys trying to survive on the nighttime streets of Johannesburg, dreaming of a better life.
This documentary tells the stories of two lives on the South African East and West coasts connected by a changing ocean.
Combat was recorded live at the Theatre of Marcellus, Emperor’s Palace. Inspired by the Mark Twain phrase: “Clothes Make The Man”, Combat both investigates and celebrates the Uniform. For centuries people have been feared or admired for their uniforms - From emperors to soldiers, church leaders and policemen to butlers chauffeurs and sailors. With comedy, fantasy, satire, bilingual monologues and a collection of original compositions, Nataniël takes a look at uniforms as only he can!
Mandela's World Cup reminds us of the tournament's hold on 200 million fans around the world and its power as a global symbol of inclusvity and sporting excellence. Mandela’s World Cup tells the compelling story of how the FIFA World Cup changed the way in which the world saw South Africa. And more importantly, the way South Africans saw themselves.
A record of four years in the life of Miche, a charming, precocious, yet troubled teenage girl growing into womanhood in post-Apartheid South Africa.
White South African farmers risk everything to start a new life in the Congo.
After losing his best friend to suicide, Zach has to face his feelings and his action.
Marius Hugo, a young medical student, has one great love in his life: his future career as a doctor, where he can serve people and thus make the world a better place. To pay for his studies, he works part-time at a roadside cafe, and one day it is right there, where he meets Dr Louise, an unhappy married woman, with whom he tries to find his happiness. His home life is also not very wonderful: there is a motorcycle 'corridor' on his track and they try to exercise their kind of human service: with fists and chains. His background in the back streets is his past: his profession as a doctor and servant is his future.
The Namibian desert town Oranjemund was until recently run by the Namdeb Diamond Corporation. Only employees were allowed to live there and Namdeb provided housing, free water and electricity. Now that Namdeb is about to close its mines and leave town altogether, the people of Oranjemund are left with uncertainty. Many are planning to depart.
This is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape Town, South Africa. Through an exploration of the objects they brought with them, the objects sent back to their homeland, the objects left behind and their associated memories, stories of joy, loss, and hopes for a return to Zimbabwe are examined.
Research / Souvenir (Dialogues), utilizes found Super 8mm footage from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and audio from ethnographic research gathered among Zimbabwean migrant women in Cape Town, South Africa. Part 1, Research, reveals the personal thoughts and challenges faced by researcher/filmmaker Horn in the field. Part 2, Souvenir (Dialogues), offers the research participants an opportunity to question Horn about his choice of souvenirs from the field, providing the political and economic backdrop to the ongoing exodus of Zimbabweans and leads up to the removal of long standing President Robert Mugabe on November 21, 2017.
Homosexuality is one of Africa’s last great taboos. In South Africa, homophobia is being ‘expressed’ through targeted rape of black lesbians. Four extraordinary women expose harrowing experiences and the struggles of African lesbians.
Khanya, an ambitious up and coming contemporary dancer, is on track to be the best she can be, but her gradual sexual awakening combined with her growing attraction to both her male and female dance partners forces her to take stock.
The inhabitants of Bakadadji, a village located in a Senegalese national park, are trying to finance fencing to secure their fields from protected species of animals that ruin their crops year after year. In doing so, these farmers are claiming recognition for their rural way of life, to which they are deeply attached. Reflecting the village's everyday reality, this film talks about a meeting that does not actually take place, as well as how we view rural society, whose voice is barely heard.
After an immigrant woman moves into her aunt’s house, she experiences sexual abuse at the hands of her in-law. She must now make a choice of whether to submit or fight.
Footage from the Boer War.
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each end, passes over a temporary bridge erected over the Modder river; Seaforth Highlanders are riding in coal trucks and the train moves towards the camera.
A touching, funny documentary on the lives of black lesbians in South Africa through the apartheid era to the present. It covers six women, talking about their African identity (“if you say being gay is not African then you insult me, because you are saying I am not African”), falling in love during the apartheid struggle, contemporary lesbian culture, being successfully out, and more.
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coast.