South Africa Movies

Peaceful Warrior encourages people of colour to get in touch with their history, their ancestors’ knowledge and traditional philosophical wisdom. In a...

In City Deep, the “zama zama” miners and the landscape merge into artworks hanging in the Johannesburg Art Gallery, itself built during the heyday of...

South African Movie Possibly Lost

A study of Johannesburg.

The Johannesburg City Council presents “After Sixty Years,” a circa 1946 black-and-white film narrated by Frank Secker that tells the history of the S...

"Land Changes Hands, but the Bees Remain in the Hive" is a short, found footage film which delves into the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Progra...

A screenwriter struggles with a scene centred around gender-based violence. As he sits feverishly typing at his desk, the words begin to distort the r...

The ghosts of Cecil John Rhodes and Jan Smuts have found friendship at their favourite haunt. The two use their powers of invisibility to get up to de...

With Nelson Mandela freed from prison, South Africa is changing fast - but big challenges lie ahead. In the township of Soweto children have taken cha...

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 grow...

The history of the Transkei Homeland told through the life of the King of the Thebu, Sabata Dalindyebo

Mam, a 55-year-old mother, devises a plan to finance her daughter’s chef school education by winning a surfing contest with a 300,000 rand prize. But...

"The Duality" is an evocative essay film exploring liminality through Lake Fundudzi and Murena, a young Christian Venda man. Juxtaposing tradition and...

Documentary about Sipho Singiswa's delayed rite of passage into manhood, the traditional circumcision of the Xhosa people in Africa. It also shows his...

Return to Western Sahara.

The magical, shape-shifting Ocean Child bursts out of the sea to meet two amazed schoolchildren. When the sound of a school bell summons away Ocean Ch...