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After 20 years behind the microphone, Kuhle Nkosi gets his international moment
After 20 years in the industry, South African voiceover artist Kuhle Nkosi has won the Best Narrator award at the Finisterra Brazil Film Art & Tourism Festival for his narration…
Apartheid doccie is a blast
London Recruits is a film that tells of young foreigners who were recruited by the ANC
The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel
Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness
Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it
Writer, skater and filmmaker Phumlani Pikoli says his artistic intention was ‘to play’
Review: ‘A New Country’ portrays the lingering aftertaste of a bittersweet freedom
Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel
Review: The documentary ‘Clebs’ is an allegory for the human condition
‘Clebs’, which documents more than 750 dogs at a sanctuary in Morocco, provides some timely symbolism as it points to human truths
Review: ‘Planet of the Humans’ is a mess. You should watch it
The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.
Mars mix might be TV’s future
Tomorrow’s television viewing could be a mashup of documentary meets fiction meets mockumentary.
Holocaust director hails jihadi doccie
Documentary depicts life among jihadi groups
Mary Ellen Mark, champion of ‘people on the edges’, dies
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
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
Doctor Dolittle in the flesh: South African-born Anna Breytenbach explores the phenomenon of talking to animals in The Animal Communicator.
Oppression across ?continents
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
We choose some of the must-see documentaries showing as part of the Encounters festival.
No shortcut through the graveyard forest
A striking new documentary delves into the lives of Israelis and Palestinians living together but apart.