Tricontinental Film Festival

Anita Khanna is the director of the TriContinental Film Festival, which is showing at cinemas in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.

Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.

Documentarians tend to traffic in misery and horror and it can be hard to escape that feeling when taking a look at the TriContinental Film Festival.

This year’s Tricontinental Film Festival celebrates those who have fought to protect freedom of speech and expression.

The Tricontinental Film Festival, the biggest festival of human rights cinema in Africa, returns with a thought-provoking lineup.

Filmmaker Peter Wintonick, director of <i>Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</i>, speaks to the <i>M&G</i>.

Zanele Muholi speaks about her documentary <i>Difficult Love</i>, and allowing "outsiders" to examine her life as a black lesbian in South Africa.

Life as an exile in Europe is illuminated through the eyes of artist Dumile Feni’s daughter, who never met her father.

Ingrid Martens’s <i>Africa Shafted — Under One Roof </i>explores the lives of non-south Africans in Africa’s tallest building.

<i>TAC — Taking Haart</i> could be seen as propaganda, or part of the TAC’s campaign to win hearts and minds. But it’s good propoganda.

This trend of using art as an outlet for frustration and marginalisation is evident in the films showing at the Tri Continental film festival.

Wole Soyinka, the wisecracking writer with the grizzled hair, has lived a full, eventful life, as documented in a film about his life.

<em>Anthrax War</em> is Bob Coen’s engrossing voyage of discovery into the dark world of chemical and biological warfare.

<i>The Glass House</i> follows four girls determined to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-a-kind rehabilitation facility.

Eight internationally acclaimed filmmakers who will present their films and take part in the People to People International Documentary Conference.