Country: South Africa

Direction Daniel Huertas

Synopsis This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.

Direction Jamie Uys

Synopsis A humorous documentary looking at the animal life over the course of a year that gather around an oasis situated in a desert in Eastern Africa. Highlights of this being the period when the fruit from the trees surrounding the...

Direction Pippa Ehrlich · James Reed

Cast Craig Foster

Synopsis My Octopus Teacher (2020) follows filmmaker Craig Foster as he forms an extraordinary bond with a wild octopus in a South African kelp forest. Over the course of a year, he visits her daily, documenting her intelligence, resilience, and playful...

Cast Patton Oswalt

Synopsis In a picturesque South African town, an eclectic group of endangered penguins flock together to find mates, raise families and mix with the locals.

Direction Oliver Schmitz

Cast Khomotso Manyaka · Keaobaka Makanyane · Harriet Lehabe · Lerato Mvelase

Synopsis "Life, Above All" is a emotional and universal drama about a young girl (stunningly performed by first-time-actress Khomotso Manyaka) who fights the fear and shame that have poisoned her community. The film captures the enduring strength of loyalty and a...

Direction Darrell James Roodt

Cast Leleti Khumalo · Lihle Mvlase · Kenneth Kambule · Harriet Lehabe

Synopsis Young mother Yesterday (Leleti Khumalo) lives in Rooihoek, a remote village with meagre resources, with her daughter Beauty (Lihle Mvelase), while her husband (Kenneth Khambula) is away working in Johannesburg's mines. Falling ill, she struggles to see a doctor, never...

Direction Chen Weijun

Synopsis Wuhan is a city in China the size of London where an experiment in democracy is conducted. At Evergreen Primary School, a grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an election for class monitor is being held. Three children...

Direction Christiaan Olwagen

Cast Schalk Bezuidenhout · Hannes Otto · Germandt Geldenhuys · Gérard Rudolf

Synopsis Kanarie (Afrikaans for Canary) tells the story of an 18-year-old man, Johan Niemand, who gets called up for military service in 1985. He auditions and is accepted to the South African Defence Force Choir, called the ‘Canaries’. Against a landscape...

Direction Jon Day

Cast Sixteen Jones · Ninja · Yolandi Visser

Synopsis The story of the controversial South African band Die Antwoord. Tracing them from their humble beginnings to global phenomenon.

Direction Neill Blomkamp

Cast Sharlto Copley · Jason Cope · David James · Vanessa Haywood

Synopsis In District 9 (2009), a massive alien spacecraft stalls over Johannesburg, leaving its malnourished occupants stranded. The extraterrestrials, derogatorily called "Prawns," are confined to a slum-like camp, District 9, facing human hostility. When a bureaucrat, Wikus van de Merwe, is...

Direction Ntshaveni Wa Luruli

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Junior Singo · Dana de Agrella · Innocent Msimango

Synopsis Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Two kids, 14, Madiba and Sipho play along the railway. A train passes by. A dead man rolls to their feet. On him, they find a...

Direction Oliver Hermanus

Cast Kai Luke Brummer · Ryan de Villiers · Hilton Pelser · Shaun Chad Smit

Synopsis It is based on the memoir, "Moffie", by André-Carl van der Merwe and tells the story of a conscript who embarks on his military service in 1981 South Africa.

Direction William Kentridge

Direction Etienne Kallos

Cast Brent Vermeulen · Alex van Dyk · Morné Visser · Juliana Venter

Synopsis South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a...

Direction Anthony Fabian

Cast Sam Neill · Sophie Okonedo · Alice Krige · Tony Kgoroge

Synopsis Ten year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking. Her parents, Abraham and Sannie, are white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. They are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her...

Direction Carlos Agulló · Mandy Jacobson

Synopsis This is the untold story behind History, a well-kept secret behind the world-wide icon: Nelson Mandela's release was a Plot for Peace. For the first time, heads of state, generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal how Africa's front...

Direction Gavin Hood

Cast Presley Chweneyagae · Terry Pheto · Kenneth Nkosi · Mothusi Magano

Synopsis Set amidst the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto - where survival is the primary objective - TSOTSI traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a...

Direction Avie Luthra

Cast Sihle Dlamini · Jayashree Basavaraj · James Ngcobo · Vusi Kunene

Synopsis 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.

Direction Donovan Marsh

Cast Troye Sivan · John Cleese · Tanit Phoenix · Jason Cope

Synopsis It's South Africa, 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school.

Direction Mark Dornford-May

Cast Pauline Malefane · Andile Tshoni · Zweilungile Sidloyi · Lungelwa Blou

Synopsis First performed on 3 March, 1875, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” has since become one of the most popular operas in the history of music. The opera’s librettists, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Helévy, based their plot on a short novel by Propser...