Documentaries

Mars mix might be TV’s future

Article bogdan TagDiv - 12 Jan 2017

Tomorrow’s television viewing could be a mashup of documentary meets fiction meets mockumentary.

Holocaust director hails jihadi doccie

Article bogdan TagDiv - 28 Jan 2016

Documentary depicts life among jihadi groups

Mary Ellen Mark, champion of ‘people on the edges’, dies

Article bogdan TagDiv - 27 May 2015

Mark, whose unflinching portraits of child prostitutes, mental patients and the homeless made her a leading documentary photographer, has died at 75.

‘Empire of dirt’: You can have it all

Article bogdan TagDiv - 5 Jun 2014

Through his father Clive, Ben Stillerman delves into the relationship between the efforts we put into our work and our private lives.

Talking to animals, one mosquito at a time

Article bogdan TagDiv - 20 Feb 2014

Doctor Dolittle in the flesh: South African-born Anna Breytenbach explores the phenomenon of talking to animals in The Animal Communicator.

Oppression across ?continents

Article Shaun De Waal - 13 Sep 2013

The TriContinental Human Rights Film Festival opens in Johannesburg this weekend, with its usual full slate of documentaries from around the world.

Encounters: Five of the best at the fest

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jun 2013

We choose some of the must-see documentaries showing as part of the Encounters festival.

Jo’burg cast in new light, but old shadows abide

Article Percy Zvomuya - 7 Jun 2013

"Jeppe on a Friday" is a compelling documentary filmed in one day by eight female filmmakers.

No shortcut through the graveyard forest

Article Hazel Friedman Author - 7 Jun 2013

A striking new documentary delves into the lives of Israelis and Palestinians living together but apart.

Unholy conquest of the ‘eternal capital’

Article Matthew Krouse - 8 Mar 2013

The narrative of filmmaker Mohammed Alatar’s disturbing 'Jerusalem: The East Side Story' begins predictably in 1947 with the division of Palestine.

Reminding us of the miracle of South Africa’s transition

Article bogdan TagDiv - 8 Feb 2013

Miracle Rising, a documentary tracing South Africa's difficult path to freedom and democracy, premieres on Sunday. Aneesa Fazel was at the preview.

Discovering hippies and teen rebellion when ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Feb 2013

Rodriguez’s magical transformation into a hero around the world has proved old South African hippies right — for once.

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