South Africa Movies

A film made by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) that depicts workers using song and dance as a form of resistance. A radical...

A short film put together by a Grade 10 Drama class for their teacher who is leaving the school, created in the style of well-known sitcom 'The...

A trio of friends go to Ancient Bethlehem to learn about quicksand. Created for the Bentlcord Experimental Animation Festival.

Kataza the baboon made international headlines when he became the subject of a series of moves made by authorities which upset the people of Cape...

When a Zulu woman's girlfriend tries to cement their relationship with marriage, she is cursed by a mysterious man at a house party, which forces her...

For the first time in 10 years, surfer Jordy Smith is home in South Africa for the winter. He hits the road with free-surfing style master Mikey...

A deeply personal film about love in the face of death. Melanie Chait documented the last four years of her life-partner, theatre director Nancy...

In love with the ocean, a father and son reflect on what it means to represent South Africa on the world stage as a professional surfer.

When a potentially devastating new virus emerges in early 2020, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rehad Desai is already following a vaccine clinical...

A documentary about the tragic life of Charmaine Mare, a young girl who had come to Cape Town in search of work to help provide financial support for...

Filmed with a phone camera during the lockdown in South Africa, one filmmaker contemplates creating within a place that never changes. The...

“Black to USSR” opens a multi-episode epic about the dialogue between Africa and Russia. The project was launched in january 2022. it...

The son of a professional mourner has now taken up the mantle of his father. He is confused -he does not want to mourn anymore, but it is all he...

In South African townships oppressed by unemployment, crime, drugs, violence, HIV and Aids, Township Yogi follows five people who transform...

Robert (not his real name), is a gay Zimbabwean man who fled to South Africa in the hopes of making this his home. What he found instead was abuse at...

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre...

A guard works the night shift in a secret government hangar. In his first day of work patroling corridors, the alarm suddenly rings...

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...

Macko, the teddy bear, battles through the Land of Nightmares on a rescue mission to save Timmy from the Boogeyman.

A colony of water worshipers can forfeit their only chance at the fulfillment of a long-awaited prophecy. Vera, the chosen woman, must decide whether...