Comparing Israel with the apartheid state has been going on for years. Now a new documentary film explores the comparison in disturbing detail.
A new film explores citizen-driven design and lessons to be learned from the West’s mistakes.
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/ 13 February 2012
A documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to superstar.
Should film critics decide who gets an Oscar?
A young Canadian with fantasies of becoming
a celebrated director risked his life to document the inner workings of Somalia’s pirates.
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/ 28 October 2011
A new documentary takes a look at the House of Nsako, a conscious-party venue that once regularly pulled crowds to High Street in Brixton, Jo’burg.
David Attenborough’s latest series is a disturbing look at the effects of climate change on the poles.
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/ 21 October 2011
The focus on black lesbians is a welcome and much-needed change at the coming Out in Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
Slavery is not invisible and it is happening
everywhere so why, and how, does it persist? A new documentary takes a closer look.
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/ 19 September 2011
Zanele Muholi speaks about her documentary <i>Difficult Love</i>, and allowing "outsiders" to examine her life as a black lesbian in South Africa.
<b>Dominic Streatfeild</b>, director of Al Jazeera’s documentary <em>9/11 Decade</em>, writes about telling the story behind the terror attacks.
Show’s makers reject academics’ claim that Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga was ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’.
We chat to Bill Botes, one of the organisers of the Bushveld Cinema taking place at Oppikoppi.
The foundation for the Zimbabwean president’s emergence as tyrant was laid before he was elected, according to a new documentary.
It becomes apparent very early in <em>The Imam and I </em> that this film is not just about a murdered apartheid-era imam.
Is this a good time for factual film-making? It depends on your definitions of fact and film.
A young German film-maker documents the people that take the Shosholoza Meyl across the country, and comes to some interesting conclusions.
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal gives his view on "big-screen doccies" and reviews <i>Up the Yangtze</i> as well as <i> Please Vote for Me</i>.
A long-forgotten and inspiring perspective of the Twin Towers emerges in a new documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has strongly condemned an Iranian documentary about the 1981 assassination of president Anwar Sadat.
Following the recent trend for lavish documentaries on the lives of sporting legends, the next to get the treatment will be one of the biggest names of all: Edson Arantes Do Nascimento.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on to the field, yet more light is shed on Hansie Cronje and the extraordinary abuse of power that was his ultimate undoing.
Yunus Momoniat talks to documentary filmmaker Jihan el-Tahri about her latest production, <i>Cuba: An African Odyssey</i>.
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/ 8 February 2008
A new film pushes stars to justify the genre’s violence and misogyny.
There was much ado this week over a dress.