South Africa Movies

An Afro-futuristic message that re-frames black cultures through poetry, movement and dance.

When the global Covid-19 pandemic breaks out and South Africa goes into hard lock down, some of the worst affected members of society are migrants...

A group of white South African farmers in South West Africa are kidnapped by a terrorist group coming from across the border. Captain Caprivi is...

Forbidden love is haunting Onderplaas. Elize, the daughter of the bywoner (tenant farmer), has fallen in love with Francois, the son of the wealthy...

Akili, a young refugee in Rwanda who has endured a long and painful journey, sits with strangers and invites them to read her story.

Womxn : Working is a portrait of Nosipho Vidima, a sex work activist and feminist from South Africa as well as her comrades who are engaged in a...

In City Deep, the “zama zama” miners and the landscape merge into artworks hanging in the Johannesburg Art Gallery, itself built during...

Amagama ka Nokutela (which means Nokutela's words/names) is an independently produced experimental short film conceptualized by Asanda Sizani and...

Upon returning to Gandiol, his native Senegalese village, after 8 years of being a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his...

“I want to talk to you,” says a female voice, over a close-up of the speaker’s resolute face. And so begins the story of...

Two women clean a farm murder scene.

Mutant is a documentary that gives an intimate look at one of South Africa's most outspoken and controversial artists and its turbulent, dangerous...

The GALA Queer Archive, with the generous support of SAIH, commissioned a short film looking into the experiences of homeless transgender sex workers...

Mariam comes from Fana, a town nearby the Malian capital. At 5, she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance, raped by her cousin at 13 and by...

A beach reminds us of Fati’s recent past. She came to Italy by sea, without papers, pregnant for the fifth time. Longing for her children, she...

A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men fight to the death, for a kingdom dreamt up by a rooster. A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men. All seem locked...

Robert (not his real name), is a gay Zimbabwean man who fled to South Africa in the hopes of making this his home. What he found instead was abuse at...

The Namibian desert town Oranjemund was until recently run by the Namdeb Diamond Corporation. Only employees were allowed to live there and Namdeb...