South Africa Movies

In a world of constant motion, whether our movements are inspired or incidental, we must be reminded to occasionally find out what we might find in...

Father’s Day is a short film about Alakhe a 12-year-old boy who is raised by a single mother. Being the nerd of the class, Alakhe is selected...

One elephant, all alone in the massive park. Lovingly nicknamed Oupoot... a single elephant cow reckoned to be about 45 years old. It's probably the...

Discovered in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa in 1995 by Palaeo scientist Ron Clarke, this is the story of a twenty-one-year excavation of...

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...

Loyiso Gola is one of South Africa's most talented comedians. His unique sense of humour and affinity toward openly frank and observational...

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...

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

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...

After sexting, a teenage girl, Alia, realises she sent her mother a picture that was not meant for her. Alia needs to retrieve the picture from her...

In this meditation on migration, loss of language, and the transcendence of reimagined forms of communication, filmmaker Abul Ajak explores how...

We are living in the time of a heteronormative society that antagonizes Queer people for their Being-ness. In Africa, it is believed that we are...

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...

The brutal and often poignant story of a boy trapped in the body of a girl. It takes us on the journey of a typical Afrikaans child who faces ...

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