Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.
Documentarians tend to traffic in misery and horror and it can be hard to escape that feeling when taking a look at the TriContinental Film Festival.
Making or acting in your own film is possible with an innovative project in downtown Jo’burg.
With such strong performances to propel it, The Eye of the Storm makes absorbing viewing.
Farewell, My Queen gives a pretty comprehensive portrait of how royalty lived and behaved, at least as seen by serving characters such as Sidonie.
Although showing at the Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival, Tom Tyk-wer’s film ‘3’ has the distinction of not being about gay people at all.
Nazis from the moon! Yes, that’s the basic idea of Iron Sky, the Finnish-German-Australian co-production.
A spy and a philosophy professor shed light on South Africa’s transition to democracy.
The third Celludroid festival runs at the Labia in Cape Town until July 5, and focuses on science fiction, fantasy and related genres.
This is a very European kind of movie, the kind Americans seem almost entirely unable to produce, even in "indie" mode.