Mother to Mother
A filmed account of the stage version of Sindiwe Magona’s novel about the tragic killing of Amy Biehl during the pre-election violence of 1993, Mother to Mother explores the difficult channels of forgiveness, redemption and reconciliation from the perspective of the mothers of the killer and the victim.
Grandpa Ernest Speaks
A filmmaker explores the mythology of the great-grandfather she never knew – along the way, reckoning with family bonds, intergenerational trauma, and her own hesitance toward telling the story.
Good Hope
Good Hope documents the first generation of young South Africans to live in a free democracy, and the first to potentially fulfil Mandela’s vision of a rainbow nation, despite the fact that most of them are just a generation away from the extreme hardship and oppression of apartheid.
Getting Into Circles
A young creative takes us on his journey, on how he and his team as independent artists are embracing their challenges and creating a voice through a promising innovative movement called Circles.
From Underground to the Corridors of Power
From Underground to the Corridors of Power, from director Teddy Mattera, provides a critical look at the formation of the National Union of Miners (NUM). Featuring interviews with key figures in the movement, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the film centres on the miners’ struggle for a living wage and better working conditions.
From the Frontline
Over the last decade, poaching across Africa has been rising like a bloody tide over the continent. This is the story of Rockwood’s rhinos and the men and women who protect them.
Ennie
Ennie, a single mother of five works as a maid for an elderly man in a village in Limpopo. She wants some sort of security for herself and younger children. Her only option is to marry into the family she works for, to a man whom no one would want their daughter to call husband.
Dafa Metti
Under Paris’ glittering Eiffel Tower, illegal Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.
Days of Cannibalism
A powerful portrayal of poverty-stricken rural Lesotho and the expanding Chinese presence there.