South Africa Movies

Homosexuality is one of Africa’s last great taboos. In South Africa, homophobia is being ‘expressed’ through targeted rape of black lesbians. Four ext...

Tired of the city life, the Botha family decides to move to the bush veld. The farm Kom Tot Rus is the ideal place, but then intrigues begin to unfold...

This short film is a story of love between a wooden man and stove child.

One Table Two Elephants is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge politics...

Within neglected multi-storey hostels, Sonder explores Black Zulu queer masculinities shaped by surveillance, violence, and desire, where fragile perf...

Ntombi Kubheka was an anti-apartheid activist and member of the armed wing of the banned African National Congress (ANC). The Security Branch of the S...

The Rhino Run is a 2750km self-supported bikepacking race. It starts in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, and finishes in Windhoek, Namibia. There are n...

Highlands Hill in Yeoville is an important public space where African Indigenous religious practices dominate. This spiritual hill provides open space...

Lionel is a professional queuer sitter – he sits so you don’t have to: Home Affairs, the licensing office, name it and he’s there. It’s a living, if n...

The greatest cinematic love story since Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet.

Khanya, an ambitious up and coming contemporary dancer, is on track to be the best she can be, but her gradual sexual awakening combined with her grow...

United Apart examines South Africa’s decision to impose one of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020, at a time when infections were...

A determined 16-year-old girl pursues her dream of becoming a model despite her mother's painful past, inspiring a journey of healing and reconciliati...

The Action Centre is Johannesburg’s only black theatre. The accent here is put on the collective work of the members of the Centre to create and to ke...

The film that the mining industry tried to shut down -- telling the story of the Marikana massacre and its political fallout in the most unequal count...

Alone with her sedated roommate Jeanie in a psychiatric ward, Annemerie, a sick young woman in her early twenties, spends the night eating everything...

A short film by Mirjam Bromundt

A moving account of a young boy’s life on the mean streets of Cape Town’s ganglands, where he quickly progresses from selling drugs to getting involve...