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Making their mark: Scenes from the new Netflix series Marked, directed by Akin Omotoso. Picture: Netflix
ACTION DRAMA SERIES

In Akin Omotoso’s Marked, crime becomes the only cure

Akin Omotoso’s Marked blends heart-pounding heist thrills with heartbreaking social critique in a story about motherhood, survival and a failing healthcare system

  • Rolland Simpi Motaung
6 min read
Excellence: Mary Twala’s performance as Mantoa in This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is superb. (Supplied)
DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

‘This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’ is an intriguing work set in Lesotho about a grieving mother

The film, which explores loss and land resettlement, is absorbing and technically accomplished

  • Taryn Joffe
3 min read