Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor a.k.a. 4 Luni, 3 Saptamani si 2 zile The story of this multi-award-winning film is very simple. It is 1987 and abortion is illegal in Romania. Pregnant student Gabita and her roommate Otilia check into a ...

(This film forms part of the JOSEPH STRICK RETROSPECTIVE) The most literary of filmmakers, Joseph Strick has been involved with filming books by Lawrence Durrell, Herman Hesse, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and, most notably, James Joyce. Now in his ...

A man comes home to his luxurious high-security house to find his wife Kim with a loaded gun. A man called Sipho is tied up in the kitchen. Sipho had highjacked Kim earlier and he has come looking for her. ...

A man comes home to his luxurious high-security house to find his wife Kim with a loaded gun. A man called Sipho is tied up in the kitchen. Sipho had highjacked Kim earlier and he has come looking for her. ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

Courtesy of Video Vision Apart from a few changes at the end, the film is pretty well faithful to J.M. Coetzee's seminal novel. David Lurie is a Cape Town university lecturer with a penchant for young girls. One of them ...

Courtesy of Video Vision Apart from a few changes at the end, the film is pretty well faithful to J.M. Coetzee's seminal novel. David Lurie is a Cape Town university lecturer with a penchant for young girls. One of them ...

Courtesy of Nu-Metro a.k.a. La Bellera esta en los ojos de quien la Mira This powerful dissection of sexual philandering and power play in a toxic affair between an arrogant older man and a vulnerable young woman is ...

Courtesy of Nu-Metro a.k.a. La Bellera esta en los ojos de quien la Mira This powerful dissection of sexual philandering and power play in a toxic affair between an arrogant older man and a vulnerable young woman is ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

Courtesy of Video Vision From its gripping early moments, Genova has an immediacy and truthfulness which draw us into the story of a family coping with tragedy. A British university lecturer takes a job in Genova, hoping he and his ...

Courtesy of Video Vision From its gripping early moments, Genova has an immediacy and truthfulness which draw us into the story of a family coping with tragedy. A British university lecturer takes a job in Genova, hoping he and his ...

Courtesy of Ster Kinekor Holed up in the Belgian town of Bruges two British hit-men are forced to confront themselves, each other and the real meaning of life and death. Bosch's painting The Last Judgement points towards their own fate ...

Courtesy of Ster Kinekor Holed up in the Belgian town of Bruges two British hit-men are forced to confront themselves, each other and the real meaning of life and death. Bosch's painting The Last Judgement points towards their own fate ...

Courtesy of the Labia a.k.a. Il y a Longtemps que Je t'Aime Juliette moves in with her younger sister's family after a long estrangement in this beautifully nuanced study of familial tension and individual regeneration. After 15 years in prison, ...

Courtesy of the Labia a.k.a. Il y a Longtemps que Je t'Aime Juliette moves in with her younger sister's family after a long estrangement in this beautifully nuanced study of familial tension and individual regeneration. After 15 years in prison, ...

Courtesy of Ten10 Films (www.ten10films.com) Lucky Kunene was a township kid who rose from small-time carjacker to Hillbrow real estate slumlord, and his story unfolds with graphic and shocking detail. The political context within which he operates acknowledges the continuing ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

(This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) The second series of extraordinary collaborations between dance and film.

Claire Angelique's directorial debut is produced by Lars von Trier's people, Zentropa, and shot by Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) with a soundtrack by Chris Letcher. It presents Durban as beautiful and hellish. A young heroin addict, working as a ...

Claire Angelique's directorial debut is produced by Lars von Trier's people, Zentropa, and shot by Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) with a soundtrack by Chris Letcher. It presents Durban as beautiful and hellish. A young heroin addict, working as a ...

Courtesy of Mondo Macabro a.k.a. Daughters of Eve / Silip In a remote part of the countryside, where women are abused and treated as sex objects by the local men, two women are accused of crimes they didn't commit ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

Die Hel (South Africa 2008) Director: Mark Jackson Cast: Adam Neill, Anton Kotze, Nicky Jansen Courtesy of the Director (www.JacksonFilm.co.za) On the road to Die Hel in the Western Cape mountains, a driver knocks over a mystery ...

Jesus and the Giant (South Africa 2008) Director: Akin Omotoso A woman called Mary has been brutally attacked by her lover the Giant. She comes to Jesus, a woman of peace who knows when action is required. She takes ...

Glenda Kemp (South Africa 2008) Director: Genevieve Louw Courtesy of Michaelis School of Fine Art (UCT) A brief and erotic excursion into the past and present of seventies exotic dance sensation and devout Christian Glenda Kemp. Echoing the ...

Friction (South Africa 2009) Director: Aurora Drummer Cast: Alicia Price, Grace Cross Courtesy of The Centre for Film and Media Studies (UCT) An audacious student production which constantly surprises with its shock cuts, startling visuals and twisted ...

Freddy Ilanga: Che Guevara's Swahili Translator (Cuba / South Africa / USA 2009) Director: Katrin Hansing An affectionate documentary about a man who lives in Cuba but remembers his native country with regret. An anti-Mobutu rebel, he ...

The Soul Minders (South Africa 2009) Director: Ryan Rees-Davies Cast: Natasha Rees-Davies, Ryan Rees-Davies Courtesy of the Director (www.The SoulMindersMovie.com) An accidental head injury leaves Grace with the ability to see the auras of humans around her. ...

The Lives of Animals (UK 2002) Director: Alex Harvey Cast: Eileen Atkins, Paul Rhys Literary magus J.M. Coetzee is a vegetarian and animal rights activist. In his novel Disgrace, the pain of the dogs is as important as ...

Based on a book by Fay Weldon and produced by Weldon's son Dan, the film is an unsettling mystery about thwarted desire and green-eyed rage. Kelly Reilly plays a young architect who plans to build a dream house in an ...

Based on a book by Fay Weldon and produced by Weldon's son Dan, the film is an unsettling mystery about thwarted desire and green-eyed rage. Kelly Reilly plays a young architect who plans to build a dream house in an ...

Courtesy of Nu-Metro (This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) Wars rage, the environment is in crisis and natural disasters are more ...

a.k.a. Janice Two self-employed big-rig drivers pick up a self-destructive sex-worker and set off on the road to ruination. The film shows America the bleak - filthy, trash strewn streets, swampy landfills, miles of destroyed land strip mining and dump ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

(These films form part of the JOSEPH STRICK RETROSPECTIVE) The most literary of filmmakers, Joseph Strick has been involved with filming books by Lawrence Durrell, Herman Hesse, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and, most notably, James Joyce. Now in his late-eighties, ...

Courtesy of BuzzMedia (www.buzzmedia.net) a.k.a. Schoft The plight of young people in Holland comes under the spotlight in this hard-hitting feature about teenage aimlessness. A young man of mixed ancestry (Muslim/Dutch) goes out on a night of sex, drugs and ...

(This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) The director of one of the finest documentaries ever, American Magus, enters into the world of ...

Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor An 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is about to experience the biggest day of his life when, with the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a fortune on Who Wants ...

Courtesy of Ster-Kinekor An 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is about to experience the biggest day of his life when, with the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a fortune on Who Wants ...

Courtesy of the Goethe Institute a.k.a. Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht After winning a Golden Bear award at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival, this film sank into obscurity. Now with the release of The Baader-Meinhof Complex, the ...

Courtesy of Contemporary Films From the novel by Herman Hesse Fred Haines' film of the Herman Hesse classic stands head and shoulders above other adaptations of great books. The reclusive Haines will be remembered forever by Hesse ...

Courtesy of Contemporary Films From the novel by Herman Hesse Fred Haines' film of the Herman Hesse classic stands head and shoulders above other adaptations of great books. The reclusive Haines will be remembered forever by Hesse ...

Courtesy of Video Vision a.k.a. Der Baader Meinhof Komplex The Red Army Faction was a left wing militant group formed by radicalised children of the Nazi generation. Based on Stefan Aust's definitive book on key figures Andreas Baader ...

(This film forms part of the JOSEPH STRICK RETROSPECTIVE) The most literary of filmmakers, Joseph Strick has been involved with filming books by Lawrence Durrell, Herman Hesse, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and, most notably, James Joyce. Now in his ...

Courtesy of the Director a.k.a. De Muze Inspired by J.M. Coetzee's Youth, the film uses beautiful, even futuristic, images to speak of alienation in contemporary society. John is a recreational writer who retreats to a Dutch harbour city ...

Courtesy of Contemporary Films / Mr Bongo a.k.a. Rekopia Znaleziony w Saragossie Rescued from obscurity by Grateful Dead head Jerry Garcia and then restored with the help of Martin Scorsese, this Polish classic of interweaving and complex narratives is a ...

Courtesy of Video Vision This film has a Golden Lion from Venice, two Golden Globes and a Bafta (Best Actor) and was nominated for two Oscars, and it deserves them all and more. Rourke is magnificent as a battered dreamer ...

Courtesy of Video Vision This film has a Golden Lion from Venice, two Golden Globes and a Bafta (Best Actor) and was nominated for two Oscars, and it deserves them all and more. Rourke is magnificent as a battered dreamer ...

This overview of Philippine cinema is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and in particular the support of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jnr ...

(This film forms part of the JOSEPH STRICK RETROSPECTIVE) The most literary of filmmakers, Joseph Strick has been involved with filming books by Lawrence Durrell, Herman Hesse, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and, most notably, James Joyce. Now in his ...

An explosive new work from Magnet Theatre in isiXhosa with English translations that explores the physical, emotional and spiritual dislocation of young black South Africans searching for a place called home somewhere between the city and the Eastern Cape. Drawing ...

Courtesy of Ten10 Films (www.ten10films.com) A feel-good crowd-pleaser that reinvents Laurel and Hardy and turns them black. Elvis has to get to his wedding in Cape Town where Ayanda - his bride-to-be - awaits him. He detours to Durban ...

Courtesy of Ten10 Films (www.ten10films.com) A feel-good crowd-pleaser that reinvents Laurel and Hardy and turns them black. Elvis has to get to his wedding in Cape Town where Ayanda - his bride-to-be - awaits him. He detours to Durban ...

Courtesy of Flamedrop.com/Cinemania (This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) An extraordinary documentary about (a) the origin of the Christian faith, (b) ...

Courtesy of Flamedrop.com / Cinemania (This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) This is divided into four parts: Part 1 deals with ...

Courtesy of Flamedrop.com / Cinemania (This film is part of our DOCUMENTING THE MATERIAL WORLD series, Part one of a serious look at documentary and its many facets) This is divided into four parts: Part 1 deals with ...

Jesus and the Giant (South Africa 2008) Director: Akin Omotoso A woman called Mary has been brutally attacked by her lover the Giant. She comes to Jesus, a woman of peace who knows when action is required. She takes ...