South Africa Movies

A Christian convert is preparing for his rebirth as a man of god – unaware that his teenage daughter, who hasn’t heard from him in three...

Set within the aftershocks of South Africa’s Apartheid, a gay farmhand writes letters to his lover.

With a Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, one would think that Dawie's life was interesting enough. But things get interesting for Dawie when he...

“I want to talk to you,” says a female voice, over a close-up of the speaker’s resolute face. And so begins the story of...

The GALA Queer Archive, with the generous support of SAIH, commissioned a short film looking into the experiences of homeless transgender sex workers...

A beach reminds us of Fati’s recent past. She came to Italy by sea, without papers, pregnant for the fifth time. Longing for her children, she...

Container makes visible the 'invisiblized' bodies enabling our consumer society. Confronting slavery through an ever transforming shipping container,...

Lesedi lives in an isolated town and spends her days throwing stones at cars passing through and hoping for something to happen. Unexpectedly, a car...

After losing his best friend to suicide, Zach has to face his feelings and his action.

Marius Hugo, a young medical student, has one great love in his life: his future career as a doctor, where he can serve people and thus make the...

When Piet, an innocent man looking for work, gets roped up in an assassination on a local politician, he ends up working with the police to bring the...

The Namibian desert town Oranjemund was until recently run by the Namdeb Diamond Corporation. Only employees were allowed to live there and Namdeb...

"Sando to Samantha" is the true story of Sando Willemse, aka Samantha Fox, a black drag queen turned soldier in the South African Defence Force....

A short film about a young woman that discovers intimacy, and the loss thereof, through an intricate relationship with her best friend and the...

Alex and Sam (Steven John Ward from Inconceivable) reconnect after a chance encounter. They imagine a fantasy life as a married couple and abandon...

This is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape...