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Malunde (2001)

Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefanie Sycholt
CAST:  Ian Roberts  •  Kagiso Mtetwa  •  Mosa Kaiser  •  Wilmien Roussouw

Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefanie Sycholt
CAST:  Ian Roberts  •  Kagiso Mtetwa  •  Mosa Kaiser  •  Wilmien Roussouw

Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

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Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Chelsom
CAST:  Simon Pegg  •  Rosamund Pike  •  Toni Collette  •  Tracy-Ann Oberman

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Chelsom
CAST:  Simon Pegg  •  Rosamund Pike  •  Toni Collette  •  Tracy-Ann Oberman

The Imposter (2012)

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In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bart Layton
CAST:  Frédéric Bourdin  •  Adam O'Brian  •  Anna Ruben  •  Cathy Dresbach

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bart Layton
CAST:  Frédéric Bourdin  •  Adam O'Brian  •  Anna Ruben  •  Cathy Dresbach

Lucky (2011)

A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avie Luthra
CAST:  Sihle Dlamini  •  Jayashree Basavaraj  •  James Ngcobo  •  Vusi Kunene

A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Avie Luthra
CAST:  Sihle Dlamini  •  Jayashree Basavaraj  •  James Ngcobo  •  Vusi Kunene

Sarafina! (1992)

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Darrell James Roodt
CAST:  Leleti Khumalo  •  Whoopi Goldberg  •  John Kani  •  Miriam Makeba

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Darrell James Roodt
CAST:  Leleti Khumalo  •  Whoopi Goldberg  •  John Kani  •  Miriam Makeba

Time (1995)

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Souleymane Cissé
CAST:  Linèo Tsolo  •  Sidi Yaya Cissé  •  Eric Miyeni  •  Mary Twala

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Souleymane Cissé
CAST:  Linèo Tsolo  •  Sidi Yaya Cissé  •  Eric Miyeni  •  Mary Twala

The Dark Tower (2017)

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nikolaj Arcel
CAST:  Abbey Lee  •  Matthew McConaughey  •  Tom Taylor  •  Idris Elba

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nikolaj Arcel
CAST:  Abbey Lee  •  Matthew McConaughey  •  Tom Taylor  •  Idris Elba

Beat the Drum (2003)

Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Hickson
CAST:  Junior Singo  •  Mary Twala  •  Adelaide Shabalala

Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Hickson
CAST:  Junior Singo  •  Mary Twala  •  Adelaide Shabalala

Ghost Son (2007)

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lamberto Bava
CAST:  Laura Harring  •  John Hannah  •  Pete Postlethwaite  •  Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lamberto Bava
CAST:  Laura Harring  •  John Hannah  •  Pete Postlethwaite  •  Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni

Leading Lady (2014)

An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henk Pretorius
CAST:  Katie McGrath  •  Bok van Blerk  •  Gil Bellows  •  Brümilda van Rensburg

An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henk Pretorius
CAST:  Katie McGrath  •  Bok van Blerk  •  Gil Bellows  •  Brümilda van Rensburg

Frank and Fearless (2018)

In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gray Hofmeyr
CAST:  Leon Schuster  •  Thembalethu Ntuli  •  Kenneth Nkosi  •  Khanyi Mbau

In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gray Hofmeyr
CAST:  Leon Schuster  •  Thembalethu Ntuli  •  Kenneth Nkosi  •  Khanyi Mbau

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020)

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
CAST:  Mary Twala  •  Makhaola Ndebele  •  Jerry Mofokeng  •  Tseko Monaheng

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
CAST:  Mary Twala  •  Makhaola Ndebele  •  Jerry Mofokeng  •  Tseko Monaheng

Taxi to Soweto (1991)

A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manie van Rensburg
CAST:  Elize Cawood  •  Marius Weyers  •  Patrick Shai  •  Casper De Vries

A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manie van Rensburg
CAST:  Elize Cawood  •  Marius Weyers  •  Patrick Shai  •  Casper De Vries

Wonder Boy For President (2016)

"Wonder Boy for President," tells a story of a charismatic young man from the Eastern Cape who is coerced into running for president by two corrupt characters. It is a political satire that delves into political dynamics and challenges that arise.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Barker
CAST:  Kagiso Lediga  •  Tony Miyambo  •  Ntosh Madlingozi  •  Thishiwe Ziqubu

"Wonder Boy for President," tells a story of a charismatic young man from the Eastern Cape who is coerced into running for president by two corrupt characters. It is a political satire that delves into political dynamics and challenges that arise.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Barker
CAST:  Kagiso Lediga  •  Tony Miyambo  •  Ntosh Madlingozi  •  Thishiwe Ziqubu

You're My Favourite Place (2022)

Nelisa Vena’s life has never been the same since the death of her sister Anathi. On the last day of their high school careers, she and three friends from a township in East London, South Africa, embark on a life-defining road trip by stealing a taxi and heading to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
CAST:  Awethu Hleli  •  Tumie Ngumla  •  Niza Jay Ncoyini  •  Khayakazi Kula

Nelisa Vena’s life has never been the same since the death of her sister Anathi. On the last day of their high school careers, she and three friends from a township in East London, South Africa, embark on a life-defining road trip by stealing a taxi and heading to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
CAST:  Awethu Hleli  •  Tumie Ngumla  •  Niza Jay Ncoyini  •  Khayakazi Kula