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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Sarah and Omelga

    Tan Chui Mui shot a short science-fiction film in South Africa (see No Woman Born). In that way she got to know the film makers…
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  • 3SAI: a Rite of Passage

    The film documents the ritual of shaving the heads of South African army recruits, contrasted with evocative landscapes and time-lapses.
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  • No Woman Born

    The Malaysian film maker sees the future in South Africa. Maybe she also sees the heritage of Frankenstein. Robot-like labourers work on gleaming whit
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  • The Unluckiest

    Not having money for a plot, two sons resolve to bury their father at the edge of the cemetery.
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  • Thank You Mama

    Film maker Omelga Mthiyane follows her mother across a large and renowned market in Durban, South Africa. The market has to go in order to…
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  • Siliva the Zulu

    In 1927, director Attilio Gatti travelled to Zululand to create a film weaving genuine anthropological elements into a fantasy of witchcraft and betra
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  • Welcome Back

    Lukhanyo travels home to bring his eccentric father to the city, where he can be cared for. But he discovers that everything is against him.
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  • Safari Obscura

    A trance-inducing kaleidoscopic journey through myriad secret African landscapes of every kind, informed by an all-embracing animism.
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  • Father Christmas Doesn’t Come Here

    A young girl reconciles images of Christmas and Santa Claus with her life in South Africa, while her grandmother must ruefully shatter her dreams.
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  • Gugu & Andile

    In the South African townships of the early nineties, the relationship between a Zulu girl, Gugu, and a Xhosa boy, Andile, challenges tribal and socia
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