Filmmaking

Nqanawe Shangase is proving that South African cinema does not need permission to thrive. The self-taught filmmaker, writer-director, producer and founder of in-cine-uation has…

At 31, Lethabo Mokgatle is using film to confront difficult conversations that many would rather avoid. Through stories rooted in African realities and women's lived experiences,…

At 34, Elelwani Netshifhire is telling the stories too often left at the margins, placing women, rural communities and overlooked voices at the heart of South African cinema. For…

A pre-wedding confession spirals into paranoia and hilarity, as The Drama probes how our hidden thoughts reshape love, trust, and identity.

Joburg creatives bring films from scratch to screen in just 48 hours

I played the lead in a film that took just 48 hours to make as part of an international competition.

The director talks about his third film, ‘Hotel On the Koppies’, making indie movies and finding outlets on streaming services

In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

Nollywood’s production values have undergone tremendous change over the past decade, but is the effect sustainable?

In ‘Rafiki’, director Wanuri Kahiu tells positive stories about queer, black lives. Her success has landed her new film projects in the United States

Khulekani Mayisa’s new film, Power to the Purple, is an intensely personal collaborative project

Sifiso Khanyile, the maker of Uprize! and A New Country, selects five documentaries that influenced his latest film

Ramadan Suleman’s documentary, ‘By All Means Necessary’ honours the struggle against colonialism. It will be showing at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival from August 20

Cabin Fever writer and director Tim Greene, whose filmography includes crowd-funded movie A Boy Called Twist (2004) and Skeem (2011), runs down some of his favourite low-budget…