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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.
Max and Mona (2004)
, 1h39Origin South africa
Genres Comedy
Tout le village s’est cotisé pour que le rêve de Max d’être médecin devienne réalité, mais au moment du départ, la chèvre sacrée du village lui est confiée par mégarde.
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.
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.
Stander (2003)
, 1h56Directed by Bronwen Hughes
Origin South africa
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Thomas Jane, Deborah Kara Unger, David O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher, Marius Weyers, Ron Smerczak
Andre Stander is an officer with the South African Police, newly married with a reputation as the youngest captain on the force, he and his partner are assigned along with other officers to riot duty in the wake of the Soweto uprising. In the chaos of one of the riots in Tembisa, Stander shoots a young, unarmed protester, which deeply affects him and causes him to become disillusioned towards the Apartheid system. One day on his lunch break Stander decides to spontaneously walk in and rob a bank, he thoroughly enjoys the rush and decides to embark on a spree of robberies, even responding to one in official capacity as an officer. In the wake of these robberies, Cor Van Deventer, Stander's partner, leads a team assigned to take down the new bank robber. Eventually being able to see through Stander's disguises, Deventer's team finally makes the arrest, Andre Stander is stripped of his position and sentenced to 32 years in prison.
My Land My Life (2003)
Origin South africa
Genres Drama
En 2000, Robert Mugabe soumet à la population une nouvelle constitution incorporant notamment une réforme agraire avec des expropriations sans compensation et surtout une amnistie permanente aux militaires et aux membres du gouvernement. Il rompt ainsi la promesse faite à 4 000 fermiers blancs, à son arrivée au pouvoir en 1990. Robert Mugabe les avait rassuré contre toute expropriation forcée et quelques milliers d'hectares avaient été redistribués pacifiquement.
Snake Island (2002)
, 1h30Directed by Wayne Crawford
Origin South africa
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors William Katt, Wayne Crawford, Milan Murray
Un groupe de touristes américains descendant une rivière africaine s'arrête brièvement sur Snake Island, une île pratiquement abandonnée depuis des années. Lorsqu'ils se retrouvent piégés sur l'île pendant la nuit, ils découvrent des milliers de serpents mortels qui ont l'intention de reprendre l'île tropicale.
La Dernière Rivale (2001)
Directed by Dennis Berry
Origin South africa
Actors Alyssa Milano, Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Easton, Jolene Blalock, Roy Scheider, Hannes Jaenicke
Les Van der Byl forment une puissante famille d'Afrique du Sud. Leur forturne repose sur le commerce de diamants dont Jacobus Van der Byl, le père, est à la tête.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
, 1h46Directed by Darrell Roodt
Origin South africa
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Charles Dutton, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo
Le jeune pasteur Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) se rend à Johannesburg pour y retrouver son fils disparu. Arrivé là-bas il rencontre la misère et apprend que son fils est devenu un criminel recherché pour meurtre, et que sa sœur a été contrainte de se prostituer.
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
, 1h34Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin South africa
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, John Lithgow, Louis Gossett Jr., Diana Rigg
Morgan Leafy is a British diplomat and works in the small African state of Kinjanja, in the process of decolonisation. Arthur Fanshawe, a new member of the Commission, brings Leafy the news that oil has just been discovered in Kinjanja. For the British to obtain the benefits of such unexpected news, they must maintain good relations with the man who appears likely to be the next president of Kinjanja, Sam Adekunle. But a diplomatic crisis occurs: a woman dies at the High Commission and the British want to prolong the native burial honors for several days.
Le Palace de la Cité Perdue (1994)
, 52minutesOrigin South africa
Genres Documentary
L’apartheid supprimé, l’Afrique du Sud peut s’ouvrir au tourisme international. Sol Kerzner crée le Palace de la Cité Perdue. Niché au cœur d’une oasis artificielle, ce luxueux complexe hôtelier se trouve dans un homeland misérable. À travers le portrait du Palace de la Cité Perdue se révèle une face cachée de la nouvelle Afrique du Sud.
The Color of Gold (1991)
, 52minutesOrigin South africa
Themes Films about racism, Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Le documentaire suit le parcours et les conditions de vie des hommes du peuple basotho originaires du Lesotho qui quittent leur pays pour aller travailler dans les mines d'Afrique du Sud, pendant une période où l'apartheid interdità leurs familles de les suivre dans ce pays. Parfois fiers d'aller travailler dans les mines, les mineurs déchantent rapidement en découvrant les conditions de vie extrêmes qu'ils doivent affronter. Ils restent absents plusieurs années et vivent coupés de leurs familles, auxquelles ils envoient de l'argent. Le film aborde divers aspects de leur vie, les conditions de travail, la vie en milieu non mixte, les prostituées, le sida, la drogue, le mal du pays et parfois les autres familles que ces mineurs sont amenés à fonder en Afrique du Sud.
Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho (1990)
, 52minutesOrigin South africa
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Les Basotho sont un peuple vivant au Lesotho et en Afrique du Sud. Dans les années 1990, beaucoup d'hommes basotho partent travailler dans les mines sud-africaines tandis que l'apartheid interdit à leurs familles d'entrer en Afrique du Sud. En l'absence de leurs maris, les femmes doivent vivre comme de quasi veuves. Le documentaire suit les parcours personnels de quatre femmes basotho.
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
, 1h38Directed by Jamie Uys
Origin South africa
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Nǃxau ǂToma, Paddy O'Byrne, Kenneth Marshall, Jamie Uys
Xixo trying to find his lost children Two elephant poachers travelling in a truck on which Xixo's children are stuck
Space Mutiny (1988)
, 1h33Directed by David Winters
Origin South africa
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Dans l'espace, Musical films, Space opera
Actors Reb Brown, Cisse Cameron, Cameron Mitchell, John Phillip Law
The Southern Sun is a generation ship, or a spacefaring vessel that contains a large number of people, whose mission is to colonize a new world. Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground. This does not please the antagonist, Elijah Kalgan, who conspires with the pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system and the ship’s Chief Engineer MacPhearson. Kalgan hatches a plot to disrupt the Southern Sun’s navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship’s police force, to hijack the ship and direct it towards this system. At this point, the inhabitants of the Southern Sun will have no choice but to accept his "generosity".