Alexander Sudheim

This year’s Loeries celebrated a campaign of social and political relevance, writes Alexander Sudheim.

One of the major players on the international film festival circuit is the prodigious Berlinale, whose Golden and Silver Bears awarded to the best films in competition are as highly prized by filmmakers as the coveted Palmes dished out at Cannes, writes Alexander Sudheim.

Sepultura means "sepulchre" in Portuguese, and the Brazilian metal supergroup certainly know how to dig a deep, dark grave to bury you alive in, writes Alexander Sudheim. The heavy metal group are on their way to shake SA.

The films on offer at the 23rd Durban International Film Festival are of such depth and variety it is almost impossible to single out any film without doing so at the expense of another, writes Alexander Sudheim.

ISHMAEL with Alexander Sudheim

With a fastidiousness, meticulousness and precision utterly at odds with the age of disposability and mass-production, Michael Croeser creates visual testaments to a value all but forgotten by many contemporary artists: obsession, writes Alexander Sudheim.

SA’s ROCK CITY: Alexander Sudheim investigates why Durban is the source of a plethora of new local rock bands.