Two journalists from rival newspapers, The Daily Herald and The National, wait outside a suburban house for a woman who is said to have had an affair with a high-profile minister. A photographer from The Daily Herald is with them, there to get a photo of the girl. Unfortunately, they don't know if this is the right house - or, indeed, whether this is even the right girl. And wi...
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje. Fat Tant Sannie (Karin van der Laag) looks after her charges, the sweet Em (Anneke Weidemann) and the independent Lyndall (Kasha Kropinski), with a strict Biblical hand - it was Em's father's dying wish. Gentle Otto (Armin), the farm manager, runs the farm and cares for Waldo, his son. Waldo (L...
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia. The film is written and directed by Charles Burnett, the African American filmmaker, and stars Carl Lu...
This is the untold story behind History, a well-kept secret behind the world-wide icon: Nelson MANDELA’s release was a ‘Plot for Peace’. For the first time, heads of state, generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal how Africa’s front line states helped end apartheid.
We watch ex-murder convict and current Cape-Flats (Capetown/South Africa) gang-leader come to terms with a life-time of choices that now result him in him having to confront his violent past in a troubled community in which he has to decide what is best for his young family while having to lead his men through a deadly drug turf-war.
Dr. Raymond Forrester, professor of psychology at UCLA, takes student and Hollywood starlet Dorothy Crowder to a Malibu hotel of questionable reputation. The two ingest LSD, sent in a mysterious package to Forrester, and become some of the first Americans to go on a psychedelic experience. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year's Eve 1960 and now the duo mus...