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Films from the country "south africa", sorted by name
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50 Years! Of Love? (2008)
, 1h29Origin South africa
Genres Documentary
Convinced that marriage is one subject that most people are poorly prepared for by most societies, a filmmaker couple set out around the world to try to obtain an honest look at marriage, beyond clichés such as the honeymoon and "...happily ever after". Considering that Golden Anniversaries must be in danger of extinction, they decide to dig deeper into the truths behind marriage by interviewing couples who have been together for 50 years or more. Only then will they decide whether or not to take that giant step themselves.
Afrikaaps (2013)
, 52minutesOrigin South africa
Genres Documentary
This documentary focuses on a theatre piece entitled Afrikaaps within a film. It is based on the creative processes and performances of the stage production. Using hip-hop the film and the stage play attempt to reclaim Afrikaans – so long considered a language of the oppressor – as a language of liberation. Present from the beginning of the project, Dylan Valley captures revealing moments of the cast's and production crew's personal narratives that transcend what happens on stage.
Allan Quatermain (1920)
Origin South africa
Genres Adventure
Actors Florence Roberts
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Beauty (2011)
, 1h38Origin South africa
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dylan Baker
The film starts with a man named François (Deon Lotz) who is a Lucky South African man in his late forties who lives an apparently joyful life. He is also openly racist and mostly homophobic, but at the same time he has been sexually attracted to other men and has frequent sex encounters with other white and married men.
, 1hOrigin South africa
Genres Documentary
En 1906, les colons britanniques introduisent une nouvelle taxe dans la colonie du Natal en Afrique du Sud. Dans le but d’inciter les jeunes Noirs à travailler pour les fermiers blancs en labourant leurs terres, les Britanniques imposent la taxe à chaque homme noir âgé de plus de 18 ans possédant une hutte.
Born into Struggle (2004)
, 1h14Origin South africa
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
In this documentary, the filmmaker Rehad Desai takes us on an intimate journey mapped out by the scars etched into his family's life from having a father who was intensely involved in politics. Barney Desai was a political hero during South Africa's struggle for freedom, yet as a father he was damagingly absent emotionally. Rehad spent most of his young life in exile and became politically active himself. On this intensely personal journey into his past, Rehad realizes he is following in his fathers footsteps as he reviews his relationship with his own estranged teenage son.
Bunny Chow (2006)
, 1h35Origin South africa
Genres Comedy
Actors Keren Neumann
Bunny Chow follows the weekend journey of four stand up comedians, who embark on a road trip to Oppikoppi, South Africa’s biggest annual rock festival. The four slip out of their normal lives for a few days with hopes of mass debauchery, drugs, rampant sex, true love and conquering the rock stages with their comedy, but they get a bit more than what they bargained for…
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
, 2hDirected by Mark Dornford-May
Origin South africa
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
The film begins when Nomakhaya arrives at a Cape Town police station, looking for police sergeant Jongikhaya. He is out on patrol, so she decides to return later to avoid being harassed by the other officers. Meanwhile, Carmen and Amanda are going to work at the cigarette factory. They pass in front of Jongikhaya's police vehicle and Carmen yells at him for parking there. Nomakhaya eventually finds Jongikhaya and gives him a ring that his dying mother sent him: she urges him to return to his village to see his mother before she dies. A flashback reveals that Jongikhaya has been disowned by his mother after he drowned his brother during an argument. Later, the bored police officers decide to go to the cigarette factory to see the girls. Carmen is piqued when Jongikhaya reads his Bible and ignores her. She flirts with him and throws a rose into his car.
Congo in Four Acts (2010)
, 1h12Directed by Dieudonné Hamadi
Origin South africa
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Initiated as an educational project to help young filmmakers develop their craft, Congo in Four Acts is a quartet of short films. Ladies in Waiting chronicles the bureaucratic dysfunctions of a maternity ward from which women cannot leave unless they pay their fees. Symphony Kinshasa takes the viewer on a tour through Congo’s capital city where malaria is rife, electricity cables lie in the street and garbage is everywhere. Zero Tolerance deals with rape as a weapon of war in Eastern RDC and the attempts by authorities to re-establish the national moral code. After the Mine depicts life in Kipushi, a mining town where the soil is contaminated.
District 9 (2009)
, 1h52Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Origin South africa
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about computing, Films about racism, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Sharlto Copley, William Allen Young, Jed Brophy, David James, Nathalie Boltt, John Sumner
In an alternate 1982, an alien ship inexplicably stops over Johannesburg. When investigation teams enter the ship, they discover a population of sick and malnourished extraterrestrials, derogatorily referred to as "prawns". The South African government confines the aliens to "District 9", a government camp that is located outside of Johannesburg. Twenty-eight years later, in 2010, following periodic conflict between the aliens and the locals living near District 9, the government hires private military company Multinational United (MNU) to relocate the aliens to a new internment. Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley), an Afrikaner bureaucrat, is appointed by Piet Smit (Louis Minnaar), an MNU executive and his father-in-law, to lead the relocation.
Zambezia (2012)
, 1h23Origin South africa
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds
Actors Jeremy Suarez, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, Samuel L. Jackson, Jenifer Lewis
Kai is a naive, but high-spirited young Peregrine falcon who lives with his father Tendai. After a visit from Gogo and Tini, Kai travels to "Zambezia," a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls where he discovers the truth about his origins and learns how to be part of the community. While learning of his father's past, Kai ends up having to work with the Hurricanes to protect Zambezia from the evil rock monitor Budzo who has persuaded the Marabous (who have been left out of the development of Zambezia) to help him with his invasion.
Drum (2004)
, 1h34Origin South africa
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Taye Diggs, Gabriel Mann, Jason Flemyng, Bonginkosi Dlamini, Bonnie Henna
The story is based on real events and real people and is set in the mid-1950s freehold township of Sophiatown, Johannesburg— one of the few areas in South Africa where blacks could own property and drink alcoholic beverages. Drum begins with the central character, sportswriter Henry Nxumalo, reporting on a boxing match with Nelson Mandela. Nxumalo leaves his wife Florence at home while going out into his community's night life and has an affair with a female singer. He works for Drum magazine, which was "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa." The magazine was financed by whites and had a multiracial staff; it was popular among the black community. Drum's British editor, Jim Bailey (Jason Flemyng), asks Nxumalo to write on the township crime scene, and Nxumalo, while at first unwilling, finally agrees. While on the job, he encounters Slim (Zola), a gang leader, that he had previously met in illegal township drinking places, and witnesses him kill a man in Sophiatown.
Faith Like Potatoes (2006)
, 1h56Directed by Regardt van den Bergh
Origin South africa
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Sean Michael, Regardt van den Bergh
When Angus Buchan, a white Zambian farmer of Scottish origin, emigrates to escape political unrest and worrying land reforms, he looks south for a better life. With nothing more than a trailer in the untamed bush, and help from his Zulu foreman, Simeon Bhengu, the Buchan family struggles to settle in their new homeland. Faced with ever mounting challenges, hardships and personal turmoil, Buchan quickly spirals down into a life consumed by anger, fear and destruction. Finally, his wife convinces him to attend a local church, where the religious testimony of other farmers influence his decision to give his life to Jesus Christ. His outlook takes a complete turnaround, and supernatural occurrences begin to happen when Angus prays in faith. He begins giving his testimony in different towns, and eventually gathers thousands of people in Kings Park Stadium for a time of unified prayer for the nation and for the land.
Forgiveness (2004)
, 1h52Origin South africa
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Arnold Vosloo
Tertius Coetzee, a young South African Police constable during apartheid, is granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for torturing and killing a Coloured ANC activist. Haunted by his brutal past, Coetzee travels to a West Coast fishing village to find the man's family and eventually ask their forgiveness.