South Africa Movies

Between birth and death, is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and...

Rite of initiation of a Sangoma: medium, healer or sorcerer, which takes place in a neighborhood of Soweto.

Somewhere along the outskirts of Johannesburg. Milo, a young illegal miner descends down into another abandoned mine, for another day of scavenging....

A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men fight to the death, for a kingdom dreamt up by a rooster. A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men. All seem locked...

Through old letters, Merle revisits her past as an anti-Apartheid activist, which fractured her relationship with her mother forever. At the same...

In a future Britain where every family is restricted to one child, a rebellious teenager must learn to work with his desperate father to keep a baby...

A film about division, inequality, food & communion in South Africa.

A chance encounter with a neighbor helps a musician deal with his creative block.

The film sheds light on a country in which, after twenty-seven years of war and three ­years of official peace, there is an overwhelming...

Joe, a small-town abattoir worker, leads us on this allegorical journey. His dream to fly has impelled him to construct his own helicopter. Its a...

Decolonising Wits is filmmaker and author Aryan Kaganof’s feature-length film looking at the Wits University end of what has come to be called...

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

In South Africa’s abandoned mines, men scrabble for gold, using hand hammers and bicycle head-lamps, often remaining underground for days,...

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

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...

Luwi is rushing to the health centre. He's heard that contraception is dangerous, and he must warn his wife before it's too late! A high-impact TV ad...

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

In the district of Katanga, in Addis Ababa, Amele and her makeshift hostel welcome young people seeking refuge in the Ethiopian capital. Every day...

In a post-apocalyptic Cape Town, where machines hunt the last human survivors, the stubborn Tink and her wedding dog, Indy, search together for robot...