In O, Griet! Sy’s droog, the actors Char Carrie from Suidooster fame, Karin van der Laag, Letolo Sekano and Ronel Stander draw viewers into a new dimension. In this short film, the characters find themselves captives in framed paintings, each depicting a different version of society’s ideas on women. To escape from the confines of the frames seem impossible … Until a girl with a pearl earring arrives with new perspectives on their situation.
In Marie se laaste dag, written by Lourensa in collaboration with author and theatre maker Mercy Kannemeyer, we meet Marie (Mandri Sutherland), the trusted secretary of the Minister of Mineral Resources, Hendrik van der Merwe (Deon Lotz). On the first day of the newly formed government of national unity (GNU), Marie is tasked to arrange a meeting for her boss with newly appointed Defence Minister, Mayihlome Khumalo (Dumisani Mbebe). Marie is ready to embrace the ideals of the New South Africa, with a helping hand from Thandi (Rozanne McKenzie), Minister Khumalo’s secretary who wears hot-red lipstick.
The psychological thriller Die skynwerper has a sterling cast that includes veterans like Dawid Minnaar and Antoinette Kellermann, as well as the Donkerbos and Dinge van ’n kind actor Ben Albertyn in the lead role. The story, written by Linsen Loots and Dewet van Rooyen, with Van Rooyen as the director, focuses on Nelis (Albertyn) who lives in seclusion with his paralysed father, portrayed by Minnaar. When Nelis loses his job, he considers participating in a reality series Die skynwerper, but when his audition fails, he becomes suspicious of the series’ presenter, whom he believes is manipulating his life from the shadows …
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.
South African Film
Three brothers from the city set off to manage a farm. Not knowing anything about farming, leads to several funny experiences. There is also a tender love story involving the youngest brother and a girl.
South African Film
South African Film
South African Film
South African Movie
Surrounded by vast expanses of desert and sea, the small Namibian harbor of Walvis Bay is the unlikely setting in which filmmaker Cecil Moller explores the lives of sex-workers. Dependent for their business on the brief visits of foreign shipping trawlers to this remote port, the women give revealing insights into the choices they have made and why they have made them. Their conflicts to do with notions of love, sex, sin and redemption become the main themes, while the threat of HIV/AIDS hangs ominously in the background.
Working with the South African women of the Black Mambas, where the fight against poachers is also a fight for women’s liberation and empowerment. Tough training, tough attitude – but driven by hope for a better 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.
A short film about a young woman that discovers intimacy, and the loss thereof, through an intricate relationship with her best friend and the dissipation of her parents' marriage.
A film about dirt, gender and separations.
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.
Kommandokorps in South Africa organizes camps during school holidays for young white Afrikaner teenagers, teaching them self-defence and how to combat a perceived black enemy. The group’s leader, self-proclaimed ‘Colonel’ Franz Jooste, served with the South African Defence Force under the old apartheid regime and eschews the vision of a multicultural nation. In nine days, boys who once carried a budding belief in South Africa's unity become toughened men with racist ideas.
PG du Plessis’ story is set in rural South Africa during the seventies. A farmer buys a broken little cast iron stove to restore and transports it home in his truck. Along the way he picks up a schoolboy hitchhiking home for the weekend. In conversation the farmer learns from the boy how cast iron should be welded. Only after dropping the boy off, does the farmer realise how much he has really learned from him.
Lollos's laughter has gone away and he can not get it anywhere! Disco, Lettie, Minki and Karla host an exciting talent competition in which everyone gets a chance to perform a hilarious item. Find out if Lollos…
