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When a group of terrorists hold tourists hostage in the Kariba Dam, Captain Caprivi and his team must perform heroic deeds in order to save them.

Waldo and Becca have exactly three things in common. Both are chefs. Both are single. And both dislike each other equally. When they end up at a crazy singles retreat in the mountains, fate throws them together in one absurd scenario after another. This forces them to reconsider their opinions on love.

Set in the magical Karoo town of Prince Albert the story revolves around forgiveness, acceptance and the meaning of miracles. When Maritjie Naude, an 18 year old farmgirl and the only child of Ella and Kallie the owners of Hoopfontein, comes home on Christmas Eve and tells them that she’s pregnant, it’s enough to shock any parents of a young daughter, but then she drops a real bombshell that will flabbergast not only her mum and dad, but the entire town. Maritjie assures them that she’s still a virgin. The only explanation to her pregnancy – it must be the work of the Holy Spirit!

It tells of a happy Bushveld family whose lives are turned upside down by the mother’s death. The father, his young daughter, and their pet dog have to move to the city so he can try and patent a bean-machine. The urban world is foreign and foreboding with much danger. The father perseveres, and triumphs in a comical manner.

A slapstick comedy about a fictitious competition spoofing reality show competitions.

Things take a turn for the unexpected when up-and-coming actor, Simon Berg, receives an invitation to be part of the cast of world renowned theatre director Andreas Vog’s latest Red Riding Hood reinvention.

Private investigator Boerboel de Wet begins to imagine things when he reads a book about another private detective whose life is a reflection of his own? Or is it the other way around? In real life, Boerboel suddenly comes into money when he saves the life of an antiquities expert. In celebration, Boerboel opens a new office. One of his first clients is Marie.

With a Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, one would think that Dawie's life was interesting enough. But things get interesting for Dawie when he wakes up in a dark apartment.

Christina Mureti, an impetuous police officer from the city, is transferred to a small desert town in Namibia where she uncovers a series of grizzly animal sacrifices. Then a German farmer is found hung on the same tree where Christina’s ancestors were hung a century ago during Germany’s colonial war with the Herero. Only when Christina begins to learn about her people’s history and embraces some of its cultural wisdom is she able to solve the case.

Just before the massacre of Donkergat during the Anglo-Boer war, Commandant Piet van Kloten buries a fortune in Kruger Rands in the area of the battlefield. So that he would remember where he buried the treasure he draws a rough map. He tears it in half and gives one half to his servant Plaatjies, extracting a promise that he will not let it fall into the wrong hands should he survive the battle.

On her 29th birthday, Aletta Vlok gets wedding fever. She starts arranging her wedding before she even has a man. Boetie Bouwer, a mechanic, is convinced that he is the man for Aletta, but when the big day arrives, everything goes wrong.

South African Film

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.

Retta Blom has the perfect life. Or so it seems. A loving husband, a son, her beloved dog and a dream house in a leafy Johannesburg suburb. When her perfectionist eye spots a tiny crack in the varnish of her flawless life, doubt seeps in. She starts investigating. Perhaps her husband, Tobias, isn’t all he pretends to be. Has he been hiding a dark secret from her all these years? When she joins her madcap friend Leigh on a road trip to Cape Town, the puzzle pieces start falling into place one by one. And with each new piece, Retta falls apart a little more.

A minister is forced to choose between his church and the woman he loves.

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 short film Ons, presented in the Silwerskerm Festival’s Emerging Filmmakers category, features a married couple whose relationship changes irrevocably in the course of one night. A series of revelations and a fatal incident place Liezl (Izel Bezuidenhout) and Dirk (Jacques Adriaanse) on a stormy emotional road of betrayal, disputes and twists as they become entangled in the web of the dark night.

While the whole country is locked down, an understaffed detective reaches out to a retired police captain to help him solve a murder via video-call. Things quickly escalate as another murder is committed.

After the devastating death of his girlfriend, singer-songwriter, Louw, flees the city and retreats to the tranquility of his family's farm, to make sense of his loss. He rekindles his friendship with an ex-girlfriend and befriends an abused and troubled teenager. By taking the teenager under his wing, Louw finds new focus and the strength to carry on.

A widower, Hans (90), is forced into a repressive old-age-home. Once there, he comes face to face with the draconian management, who forces him to become a rebel and activist, a 90-year-old-man who has nothing to lose by revolting. An anti-ageism revolution about growing old on your own terms.