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Showing 19 Films from South Africa
Being Pavarotti
Being Pavarotti
Elton, a 13-year-old South African opera singer, fell in love with opera after his cousin gave him a tape of famed Italian teno...
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Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies
Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Ca...
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Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope
In this mosaic of contemporary South African life, six people of different racial and cultural backgrounds connect with one ano...
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Cinderella of the Cape Flats
Cinderella of the Cape Flats
Everyday the women of South Africa's garment industry labor in anonymity to create clothes that make other women look beautiful...
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Container
Container
Positioned at the intersection of virtual reality and installation art, Container takes viewers on an ever-transforming journey...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country
In this powerful adaptation of Alan Paton's classic novel, a black South African pastor (James Earl Jones) and a white landowne...
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Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here
Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here
A young girl's low self-esteem is redeemed in Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here.
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Guardians of the River
Guardians of the River
This is the story of the guardians of the Okavango water system, a network of rivers spanning three countries in Africa, and ho...
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road
From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary "Mad Max" franchise, ...
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Mama Africa
Mama Africa
Packed with five decades of rare archival footage and captivating melodies, Mama Africa tells the incredible story of Miriam Ma...
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Mix
Mix
Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and Dominique, two female hip-hop DJs, to express themselves in...
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My Father the Mover
My Father the Mover
African electronic Gqom beats motivate kids in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa to jive through their hardship and fin...
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Necktie Youth
Necktie Youth
The debut feature of twenty-three-year-old South African wunderkind Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, Necktie Youth follows Jabz and Septemb...
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Settlers
Settlers
In this compelling sci-fi thriller set on a desolate Mars homestead, young Remmy finds herself the prisoner of a mysterious and...
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The Bang Bang Club
The Bang Bang Club
The Bang Bang Club is the true story of four young combat photographers bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell...
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The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face
The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face
Two days before Christmas in 1988, a 59-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. Becaus...
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The Swenkas
The Swenkas
In this riveting documentary, the Johannesburg South African men who call themselves "Swenkas" compete for cash and prizes in a...
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Tribeca NOW Special Screening: Incarceration Nations: A Global Docuseries
Tribeca NOW Special Screening: Incarceration Nations: A Global Docuseries
Mass incarceration is a global calamity. From England to El Salvador, Argentina to the United States, Brazil and Lebanon to Sou...
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With All My Children
With All My Children
"What's important is freeing yourself before someone else frees you," declares feisty mother of two Beatrice Kubheka. She's tal...
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