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Elton, a 13-year-old South African opera singer, fell in love with opera after his cousin gave him a tape of famed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Elton's performances, from solo stints at open-air festivals to opening for established opera sing...

Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, B...

In this mosaic of contemporary South African life, six people of different racial and cultural backgrounds connect with one another at a Cape Town animal rescue shelter. The impressive cast is led by Nthati Moshesh (The Long Run), Eriq Ebouaney (L...

Everyday the women of South Africa's garment industry labor in anonymity to create clothes that make other women look beautiful. At their Annual Spring Pageant, however, the workers get to wear the clothes they make. Set during the days leading up...

Positioned at the intersection of virtual reality and installation art, Container takes viewers on an ever-transforming journey, beginning at Clifton Beach, Cape Town, where lie the graves of the 221 enslaved men and women who drowned in shackles ...

In this powerful adaptation of Alan Paton's classic novel, a black South African pastor (James Earl Jones) and a white landowner (Richard Harris) become tragically linked by a senseless murder in Johannesburg. Strong, dignified turns by the two le...

A young girl's low self-esteem is redeemed in Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here.

This is the story of the guardians of the Okavango water system, a network of rivers spanning three countries in Africa, and home to some of the most endangered animals on the planet. These guardians have a monumental task: trying to protect a rem...

From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary "Mad Max" franchise, comes "Mad Max: Fury Road," a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, M...

Packed with five decades of rare archival footage and captivating melodies, Mama Africa tells the incredible story of Miriam Makeba. First introduced to American audiences by Harry Belafonte, Makeba's songs exposed the injustice of Apartheid in So...

Freedom in South Africa after 1994 means the freedom for Tumelo and Dominique, two female hip-hop DJs, to express themselves in ways that genuinely baffle their parents. Communication breakdowns between parents and children, young and old, striki...

African electronic Gqom beats motivate kids in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa to jive through their hardship and find their superpowers.

The debut feature of twenty-three-year-old South African wunderkind Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, Necktie Youth follows Jabz and September, two rowdy, rebellious Johannesburg millennials drifting through a life of sex, drugs, and half-baked philosophizing,...

In this compelling sci-fi thriller set on a desolate Mars homestead, young Remmy finds herself the prisoner of a mysterious and murderous stranger. Escape seems impossible, but an unlikely friendship might prove her deliverance.

The Bang Bang Club is the true story of four young combat photographers bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risk their lives and use their cameras to tell the world of the violence associated with the first free...

Two days before Christmas in 1988, a 59-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. Because of police bungling, the crime was never solved. Now the woman's daughter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, returns...

In this riveting documentary, the Johannesburg South African men who call themselves "Swenkas" compete for cash and prizes in an event that's part fashion show, part choreography, and part moral code. While they may work construction during the we...

Mass incarceration is a global calamity. From England to El Salvador, Argentina to the United States, Brazil and Lebanon to South Africa and Sierra Leone, its harms and horrors look strikingly similar. Incarceration Nations is the first docuserie...

"What's important is freeing yourself before someone else frees you," declares feisty mother of two Beatrice Kubheka. She's talking to her sons, upwardly mobile Miles and unemployed Nhlanhla. The brothers' different lives in Soweto represent Mama ...