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Hansie The man behind the big budget film about the dramatic life of former south african cricket captain Hansie Cronjé, is none other than Hansie's older brother Frans Cronjé. Hansie is a human drama, the story of a man, both glorious and flawed. Through riveting match-fixing intrigue, heart-stirring drama and action-packed sporting highlights we see the cricket captain of South Africa, with the world at his feet, trip and fall. With the unswerving dedication of his wife, and with the guiding wisdom of a dear friend, Hansie (Frank Rautenbach) begins the journey back to forgiveness and redemption. Read More Interview with Frank Rautenbach
Heaven's Herds In telling the story of the Nguni Cattle and People, the film investigates controversial issues, says director James Hersov. "Modernity is juxtaposed with tradition around questions such as cattle as bride wealth, polygamy, the status of women, stick-fighting and Zulu masculinity, HIV/AIDS, the value of virginity, cattle rustling, witchcraft and the ceremonial animal killing," he says. Read More
Hidden Heart A film about two men, glamour, injustice and uprising. Cape Town 1967: Christian Barnard transplanted the first human heart in a country where racial segregation was entrenched as nowhere else in the world. But behind him stood an unknown black man: Hamilton Naki. Read More
Hitchhiker filled with romance, jealousy, passion, old money and a bit of international crime to boot, it follows two parallel love stories from the Highveld bush to the Winelands of Stellenbosch. Read More Interview with writer-director-producer Chris Du Toit
100m Leeuloop Robbie Wessels's film has all the ingredients for a fabulously funny South African comedy that will appeal to the whole family, both young and old. The 100 Meter Leeuloop is structured as a mockumentary: there is a story but it's told in the reality style - it's about a competition being held and the fun involved in choosing the winner. Read more
Hond Se Dinges An unresolved murder. A lost diamond. A radio interview that digs up a few real and imagined skeletons. A guilty conscience. This reignites the conflict between the De Langes and Coetsees. It gets out of hand. And that over dinges, diamonds, and women. Or both. In Afrikaans with English Subtitles. Read more Interview With Producer-writer-director Johan Heyns and screenwriter Johann Potgieter
Hoofmeisie A family comedy about four primary school girls who, under their dominating mothers, go to extremes to be elected as the head girl of Laërskool Stumbo Pops. In Afrikaans with English Subtitles Read More
Hopeville The uplifting story of Amos Manyani, a recovering alcoholic who moves to a rundown rural town in the hope of etching out a new life with his alienated son Themba. In the face of a corrupt municipality, dark community secrets and apparent apathy, Amos finds meaning in his mission to restore the derelict public swimming pool. This is largely a tender bid to also restore the damaged relationship with his son Themba, Who is an upcoming swimming star deeply unhappy that he now has to stay with his estranged father after his mother's untimely death. Amos's "service" is initially met with skepticism from both Themba and the community, and frustrating resistance from the authorities, but eventually his perseverance inspires the community of Hopeville to finally act on their convictions. Read More
How To Steal 2 Million The debut feature film by director Charlie Vundla. A dark crime drama set in the gritty streets of an unforgiving city. A modern day South African noir film that takes place in a sickly, corrupt city where everyone has an ulterior motive. Read More
I Now Pronounce You Black And White when two people fall in love and get married it is a joyous occasion, right? Wrong! Meet Simon Dawson (Tyrel Meyer). Simon is a white Jewish South African who has just returned from working overseas in the UK. He is introduced to Jackie Msolisi, (Astara Mwakalumbwa) an independent, smart and beautiful Black South African woman. Sparks fly and after a whirlwind romance Simon and Jackie announce their plans to marry. This does not meet with the approval of their parents. Read More Interview with writer-producer-director Oliver Rodger
In God's Country Based on a short story written by Dirk Fourie, with the screenplay adapted by Dirk Fourie and Daniel Dercksen, the short film was co-produced by The Writing Studio and provided an exciting training opportunity for future filmmakers. When a seashell is uncovered on a farm it leads a young man to redemption and acceptance and forces him to reconcile with his fragmented family. It was selected to be included in competition for the 6th Apollo film festival in Victoria West. Read More
Ingrid Jonker: Her Lives & Time A documentary which includes Sir Laurens Van Der Post's last interview before he died in 1997 and Jan Rabie's final interview before he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Narrated by Marius Weyers, the documentary also includes an unprecedented access to Ingrid Jonker's diaries, private letters, home recordings and unpublished photographs, as well as the first public disclosure of Jack Cope's diaries. Read More Interview with writer-director Helena Nogueira
In My Country An African-American journalist, Langston arrives to cover South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission with preconceived ideas. Anna is an Afrikaans Poet. Closeted From the insidious machinations of Apartheid, she is deeply shocked and horrified by the dissolute cruelty of her fellow citizens. Of the people who live through them. Read More
Intonga The heartwarming story of Siviwe, a young man from Fort Beaufort, and his fight for acceptance when he and his mother move to the city after his father dies. This stick fighter from Fort Beaufort is confronted by a local champion boxer "Knuckles", after his girlfriend Thando shows too much interest in Siviwe. Read More
Izulu Lami/ My Secret Sky A young girl and her little brother leave their rural homestead for the city when they are orphaned, and meet up with a gang of street kids. Hoping to fulfill their mother's dream, in the end they find their own. Read More Interview with Madoda Ncayiyana, the director and co-writer Interview with Julie Frederikse, the co-writer
Jakhalsdans The story of a female teacher, Mara Malan (Elizma Theron), who has spent her last savings on a house in Loxton so that she can raise her five-year-old daughter, Mia (Janke Bruwer), in a safe and friendly country environment. But on their arrival, Mara discovers that the town's primary school is going to close down, unless she can raise R500 000 within three weeks. It's the local musician-cum-handyman, Dawid le Fleur (Neil Sandilands), who gives Mara the idea to hold a music festival, but she has to find a way to get the country's top artists to play if she hopes to attract a crowd. Directed by Darrel Roodt and written by the widely admired Afrikaans crime novelist Deon Meyer.In Afrikaans with English Subtitles. Read More Interview with Deon Meyer
Jerusalema Explores the will of the entrepreneurial spirit to assert itself in the face of degradation and decay. It looks at how law and order are viewed in a country that's deeply suspicious of the police. A legacy not easily shorn after so much pain. Chronicling the rise to power of a self made millionaire from the slums of Soweto, the film shows how crime has come to pay in the New South Africa. Freedom is slavery, change is opportunity and property is theft. Welcome to the Promised Land… Read More Interview with writer-director Ralph Ziman
Jock Of The Bushveld In 1986 South African film-maker Duncan MacNeillie produced a live action movie of Jock of the Bushveld. Having raised the finance privately, Duncan assembled a team of some two dozen South African animation specialists, and production started in Johannesburg in early 2008. Soon thereafter the decision was made to follow the international trend to CGI stereoscopic 3D, and Jock was one of the first movies from Southern Africa to adopt this technology. In the harsh wilderness of eastern South Africa in 1873 a young puppy, the runt of the litter, Jock, is saved from drowning and certain death, and groomed into a fearless and faithful dog who goes on to become a folk legend for his bravery and loyalty to his master. Read More
Jozi James is a successful comedy writer. There is only one small problem, he lives in Johannesburg and has completely and utterly lost his sense of humour. Crime, politics, pessimism and feather duster salesmen have invaded every cell of his body causing him to lose the very spark of humour which enables him to earn his living. Written And Directed By Craig Freimond. Read More Interview with writer-director Craig Freimond
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