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Western 4.33
Aryan Kaganof (previously Ian Kerkhof) made this beautiful meditative statement in Namibia, where the German colonial power established concentrationPublished on: -
Raya
Intense narrative about Raya, just out of jail, whose mother never came to see her but did look after her daughter.Published on: -
Medicine Chest
The first screen-specific installation by Kentridge. In this case, the found screen is a medicine chest, which also sets the theme of the piece. A…Published on: -
Punk in Africa
The striking story of a hidden, underground, even secret and banned movement. Bands with both black and white musicians broke the law. In the apartheiPublished on: -
Gangster Project
Few white kids dare to enter a violent black township to shoot a film about gangsters. And it’s funny too.Published on: -
Skoonheid
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. So does obsession. Beauty is set in a South Africa we seldom see: white suburbia, where people…Published on: -
Speak
The Ugandan logline is ‘Obusilise bwogezi’, which means ‘silence speaks’. The protagonist is the deaf and dumb girl Hope, who is closely followed duriPublished on: -
Homage to the Buddha – of Africa
The Chinese don’t go to Africa just for themselves. In a Chinese Buddhist orphanage, children learn to read and write. And, of course, they learn…Published on: -
A Small Town Called Descent
They were called Scorpions. A South African elite unit that was allowed to operate above the police and beyond politics. Trained fighters in black suiPublished on: -
Li Xia’s Salon
There are African women and African women. Mthiyane is an African woman. In China, she went into a hairdresser’s and said: ‘Do something with my…Published on: