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Capturing Water

Capturing Water delves into Cape Town’s escalating water crisis, a growing emergency in recent years. As pollution of natural water sources worsens and industrial and urban developments threaten access to clean water, government responses remain inadequate.

Director

Rehad Desai, Anita Khanna

Producer

Anita Khanna, Koni Benson, Jemima Spring

Cinematographer

Nic Hofmeyr, Matthew Robinson, Duncan Tilley

Composer

Phillip Miller

Awards

Best Documentary Nomination – Joburg Film Festival

From the gentle chaos of a warm family kitchen where the weight of motherhood once consumed her, to the cold stark present where memory no longer holds. Haunted by the relentless ticking of a clock and the ghost of a ringing phone, Elsie is caught in the haunting beauty of a life she once longed […]

Feature

Carissa

In a quiet village, a young woman is pushed by her grandmother to apply for a job opportunity on a new golf estate being developed in the mountains. However, when she learns that the estate will be built over her estranged grandfather’s rooibos tea lands, she is confronted with a difficult choice.

Feature

Runs in the Family

A modest tailor and single Indian dad, Varun (Ace Bhatti) and his transmasculine son, River (Gabe Gabriel), take a road trip across South Africa to break River’s estranged mother, Monica (Diaan Lawrenson), out of a rehab clinic.

Short

Loom Body

Set in contemporary South Africa, Loom Body traces an intimate dialogue between body and machine. As dancers and looms echo one another’s rhythm, the film becomes a meditation on how movement and making intertwine – weaving labour, ritual, and memory into a living tapestry of resilience and renewal.

Doco

Fitting In

Young South Africans from all walks of life begin their student experience at the elite University of Stellenbosch. Within the walls of a prestigious student residence called “Eendrag“, the newcomers are confronted with colonial structures. They try to navigate between personal growth, cultural differences and a past that has not been forgotten.