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South African cinema takes centre stage at Joburg Film Festival 2026
This year’s festival begins and ends with powerful local films confronting apartheid, colonialism and memory through confident, world-class craft
Why craft matters: Curating the Joburg Film Festival 2026
As the Joburg Film Festival returns in 2026, curator Nhlanhla Ndaba explains why craft, care and unseen labour are taking centre stage
The bioscope is back: Soweto film Market & film festival are reclaiming township cinema culture
Thapelo Motloung breaks down building a filmmaking ecosystem in Soweto through SIFF and Soweto Film Marke
Missing in storytelling: African countries are squandering film and tourism gains
There is an urgent need for investment in diverse, homegrown narratives as African cinema struggles for authentic representation at global festivals, often tokenised
Rewriting the South African cinema script
Movie theatres are empty but South African stories are abundant — what’s the disconnect?
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Durban gives glory to the extraordinary
Cineasts of the coast are about to be blessed with a line-up of exceptional cinema.
Bokeh attempts to stitch SA’s film, fashion industry together
The inaugural Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival, which took place in Cape Town, aims to challenge traditional form of film.
iMPAC: Short films get their five minutes
This year’s iMPAC festival includes three one-hour short-film selections of work by founder Pluto Panoussis’s students. The M&G caught up with him.
‘Fanie Fourie’s Lobola’ scoops major award
The South African film "Fanie Fourie’s Lobola" has won an award at the largest film festival in the United States, it has been reported.
If it’s September it must be Venice, but Europe’s film festivals face a new threat
Celebrities will grace the Lido’s red carpet this week but the magic of the world’s oldest film festival is fading.
Cannes’s late surprise
Agnes Poirier looks at Laurent Cantet’s film <i>Entre les Murs </i>, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Festival.
Indy goes old-school
Back after 19 years, the new Indiana Jones film premiered at Cannes. Charlotte Higgins reports from the festival.
Africa on screen
Percy Zvumoya looks at the upcoming film festival Africa on Screen, which will coincide with this year’s Africa Day celebrations.
A taste of Croatia on screen
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> The Croatian Film Festival, <i>How She Move</i>, <i>Mad Money</i> and <i>Street Kings</i>, starring Forrest Whitaker.