Encounters Film Festival

These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly 50 documentaries

The musician will perform alongside some of the country’s best artists

Organisers were shocked when they were told they had lost their biggest funder, but the NFVF says the delivery of its decision was procedure

‘Mama Winnie’s mere presence was enough to tell me that I am more than fine, and that I am capable,’ says the writer

‘The story is narrated by people who were there and who relay the climate that led to the day we now know as June 16.’

As the renowned film festival opens across parts of the country, Darryl Accone and Katlego Mkhwanazi list their must-sees.

Documentaries have long since ceased to be feature film’s irritating cousin but has grown up, as this year’s Encounters Festival programme proves.

Mayenzeke Baza’s documentary explores issues of best practice in circumcision as well as wider issues of secrecy and the exclusion of women.

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

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

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

Viewed from the context of SA in 2012, Common Purpose reminds us of apartheid brutality, FW de Klerk’s recent protestations notwithstanding.

One feels an enormous sense of gratuitous satisfaction while watching Jon Blair’s Rio drug documentary "Dancing with the Devil".

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.