Beyond Moving
When a young Siphe November leaves his small township in South Africa to follow his dreams at Canada’s National Ballet School, he begins a remarkable journey that reveals deeply personal pulses of family, prejudice, expectation, loss, and resilience that beat beneath the surface of a beautiful and demanding art form. As he soars on stages […]
Back of the Moon
28 July 1958. Badman, an intellectual and the leader of the most powerful gang in Sophiatown, lives life on his own terms in this crazy, cosmopolitan, half demolished ghetto on the edge of Johannesburg. The gorgeous Eve Msomi, a torch-singer on the brink of an international career, is giving her last concert in the local […]
The Space: Theatre of Survival
South Africa, 1972: The oppression of the apartheid led government brutalised the black and non-white population groups, removing anyone deemed an antagonist to the regime. From incarceration and vicious beatings to the blatant murder of the innocent by the police, the unrest in South Africa is palpable. On returning from a trip to London, Brian […]
Billy Monk – Shot in the Dark
Billy Monk. A 1960s Cape Town legend whose black and white photographs of dockside nightlife reveal an underground South Africa, untouched by the division of apartheid. His own tragic story is equally as colourful. DIRECTOR STATEMENT ‘Billy Monk – Shot in the Dark’ is a celebration of a little-known slice of South Africa’s history. Through […]
Johnny Clegg – The White Zulu
“Johnny Clegg, the white Zulu“, Amine Mestari’s documentary, tells the story of the exceptional adventure of a committed musician, crazy for dance, who has made the world loves his vision of a South African culture. A culture that allows everyone, black and white, to express themselves and make it possible to get along. Apartheid wanted […]
Knuckle City
Opening in 1994, Knuckle City shifts between the childhood and adult lives of the legendary boxing champion turned gangster Art Nyakama. Cut to 2019 and his two sons have grown up to follow closely in the footsteps of their father. Dudu Nyakama has become a womanizing professional boxer and Duke Nyakama is now a career […]
Buddha in Africa
Enock Alu, a Malawian teenager growing up in a Chinese Buddhist orphanage, feels torn between his African roots and Chinese upbringing. Once the star performer with dreams of becoming a martial arts hero like Jet Li, Enock, in his final year of school, has to make some tough decisions about his future. Will he return […]
The Last Victims
A former member of South Africa’s infamous death squad (C1 – Counter Insergency) must atone for his past when he helps one survivor, search for the bodies of a missing anti-apartheid cell. Unaware that as they hunt for answers, they too are being hunted.
How to Steal a Country
How to Steal a Country shows how investigative journalists, with the help of whistle blowers, doggedly uncovered the systemic looting of South Africa’s most important state-owned enterprises, to the benefit of the Gupta brothers and then-President Zuma. It’s a suspenseful story of corruption, involving the top echelons of political power and several well-known multinational corporations.
Flatland
A contemporary Western, a journey of self-discovery for three different but equally trapped women. A portrait of femininity against a hostile land, questioning what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large. World Premiere at the Berlin International film Festival (Panorama) – 2019
