The Mooting Competition (2022) Duration: 1H25M Description: Every year, top law students from all over Africa meet in Botswana to compete in litigation. In the competition, they act as both prosecutors and defense in a fictional case about the rights of refugees. Here, students are forced ….. Trailer ↗ South Africa Finland 2022 Documentary
Category: South Africa
Transactions (2022)
Transactions (2022) Duration: 53M Description: ‘Transactions’ tells a story of Zimbabwean migration through a family divided by the circumstances of a failed economy. Three siblings, Frank, Miles and Portia, sustain their family through remittances while longing for the countr….. Trailer ↗ Zimbabwe South Africa 2022 Documentary
The African Cypher (2012)
The African Cypher (2012) Duration: 1H28M Description: The African Cypher ‘When we dance we find purpose with our bodies’ – Tom London (Soweto’s Finest) Street dance in South Africa is a complex, convoluted underworld; that like most sub-cultures, exist as a sum of its participants. I….. Trailer ↗ South Africa 2012 Documentary Action Comedy
Die Laaste Tango (2013)
Die Laaste Tango (2013) Duration: 1H52M Description: De Wet, a 34-year old, workaholic detective is burnt out, having immersed himself in an investigation involving the ruthless murder of 9 girls. De Wet captures the psycho-killer Basson and, in a fit of rage, brutally beats him, th….. Trailer ↗ South Africa 2013 Drama
Man on Ground (2011)
Man on Ground (2011) Duration: 1H20M Description: Ade and Femi are expatriate Nigerian brothers. Ade is a successful banker in London, while Femi, once a political dissident in his home country, has had to escape to South Africa, live in refugee tenements and work menial jobs. Th….. Trailer ↗ South Africa 2011 Drama
Shotgun Garfunkel (2013)
10%: What Makes a Hero? (2013)
10%: What Makes a Hero? (2013) Duration: 1H28M Description: Award-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightful international quest, exploring the notion of heroism through a multi-faceted lens. From ordinary heroes to freedom fighters, pr….. Trailer ↗ Israel United States South Africa Germany Congo 2013 Documentary Adventure Biography
Electric Amazon (2015)
Electric Amazon (2015) Duration: 46M Description: The Amazon is one of the wildest and least explored parts of the planet. Encompassing 6 countries and 2 million square miles of forest, river and floodplain, it has the highest diversity of life on the planet, but what lies below ….. Trailer ↗ South Africa 2015 Documentary
Hillbrow Kids (2000)
Cheetah: The Price of Speed (2010)
Fool in a Bubble (2010)
Fool in a Bubble (2010) Duration: 1H29M Description: FOOL IN A BUBBLE is a documentary film that explores the conflicts of white South African musician/poet Syd Kitchen.The film weaves Syd’s past and present recording album in New York with South African musicians from Paul Simon’s ….. Trailer ↗ Swaziland South Africa United States 2010 Documentary […]
I Want to Be an American (2013)
I Want to Be an American (2013) Duration: 1H10M Description: In the spirit of the Surrealist parlor game of chance Exquisite Corpse, each filmmaker makes a documentary short film based on imagery forwarded on by the previous filmmaker in the chain. The composite story forms a global indepen….. Trailer ↗ United Kingdom Norway Australia South […]
Herma, xxy intersex (2014)
Herma, xxy intersex (2014) Duration: 51M Description: At thirty-nine, Sunny Dagenais discovers that he was born intersex. An intersex person has the biological attributes of both sexes or lacks some of the biological attributes considered necessary to be defined as one sex or another….. Trailer ↗ Canada China Germany South Africa 2014 Documentary
1960 (2022)
The Creators (2012)
The Creators (2012) Duration: 1H29M Description: Born into separate areas of the formerly-segregated country, The Creators recraft history in their own artistic languages. Weaving through the lives of Faith47 (street art), Warongx (afro-blues), Emile (hip-hop), Sweat.X (performa….. Trailer ↗ United States South Africa 2012 Documentary History Music
Casting Me… (2012)
Casting Me… (2012) Duration: 1H37M Description: Paul is a frustrated but like able Casting Director who has dreams of finally making his own feature film. To get his life on track again and win back his girlfriend he decides to make a film about his job, love life and all the f….. Trailer ↗ South […]
Cup of Dreams (2011)
Cup of Dreams (2011) Duration: 55M Description: Four years in the making – Julian Shaw’s new documentary Cup of Dreams takes viewers on a deeply personal and emotionally charged journey through the heart of New Zealand, as the nation prepares for the biggest global sporting eve….. Trailer ↗ Australia New Zealand South Africa 2011 Documentary […]
Oupa for Sale (1968)
Koringberg (2013)
Hippo vs Croc (2014)
Hippo vs Croc (2014) Duration: 50M Description: Two of Africas deadliest gladiators – hippos and crocs have lived side by side for millennia, but are they cozy bedfellows or arch-enemies? One is a hefty herbivore, the other is the most successful freshwater predator on the pla….. Trailer ↗ South Africa 2014 Documentary