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A small child runs around inside a house, with luminous devil horns on his head: these first images echo the devil's lair that gives the film its title. But the real hell is outside: the harsh reality...
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Eat My Dust is a passionate project developed with the inhabitants of Kliptown, a district of Soweto in the suburbs of Johannesburg. The young people of the township, now budding...
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The introduction is direct and abrupt: we are in Cape Flats, Cape Town's huge suburb, marked by poverty, drug trafficking and crime, and controlled by gangsters. It is in this electric context that a...
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A refined analysis of the effects of the consumer society in Umlazi, the largest township in South Africa, located near Durban, the largest port in Africa. Containers full of goods leave from here to...
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Nelson Mandela: a name that rings out with incomparable power across all four corners of the world, a unique figure in the history of modern society, both martyr and hero of Apartheid. For South...
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An essential and powerful document, a dive, with neither a mask nor oxygen, into the heart of the Marikana massacre in South Africa in 2012. Following the miners' strike for better wage conditions,...
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The first images show Johannesburg seen from the sky, a way of setting the tone and getting a global idea of the impressive South African megalopolis, with its imposing skyscrapers, chaotic streets...
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For nine years, the director filmed the daily life of her family of farmers—Afrikaners, also known as Boers, the descendants of the white pioneers in South Africa. At the right distance, the camera...
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The camera brings us into the world of Ivy, owner of a beauty salon where clients come to enjoy the treatments offered by this beautician with a very lively personality. But there is so much more to...
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The enfant terrible of South African experimental film offers a spatial-temporal experience in memory via a truck driver's journey from Johannesburg to Namibia. While the flow of images and sounds...
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After the glorious era marked by diamond fever, the small town of Port Nolloth, on the North West coast of South Africa, disappears inexorably into oblivion. Take a tour of a ghost village and its...
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We discover Cape Town and its layout from the sky, looking down from the heights of the emblematic Table Mountain. An observation of an exceptional place which opens up reflection on the possible...
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A fascinating personal perspective of Johannesburg, a contemporary megalopolis shaped by its human and political history. Much like a mirror, its inhabitants and districts reflect the paradoxes of...
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First and foremost, this unique place fills the frame: the highlands and snow-capped peaks of the Kingdom of Lesotho. With its own specific socio-political structures and traditions, it is a small...
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In an observation in highly ironic black and white, as accurate as if it were cut by laser, Simon Gush reflects on the work ethic and influence of Calvin in Geneva and in South Africa. The traces of...
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Dance, imagery, poetry and music as metaphors for the history of a country: its movements struggling for freedom and its heritage are brilliantly brought into dialogue through a fascinating...
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A first-person study that tackles a major challenge: understanding the meaning of marriage and penetrating the secret of long-lasting love! The director seeks answers to the questions building up in...
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Three young women reflect on their freedom in South Africa today in an experimental essay that stands at the crossroads with performance. Their ethnical and political questions echo those of an entire...
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Ashley Kriel, a young activist and key figure of the anti-apartheid liberation struggle, was killed by the police at the age of 20, thus becoming a symbol of South African resistance. Known as the...