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- Workshoped with inmates from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.
- A story of hope borne from love grown in a forbidding time.
- Jessica meets Tuli at the Jetty in Swakopmund, and they have an intimate night together. However, Tuli's business troubles prevent him from getting Jessica's number. Tuli seeks Jessica but fails, and the next day he is hired by David to plan his wedding. Tuli witnesses David proposing to Jessica, who is surprised to find out that Tuli is her wedding planner. They grow closer, realizing their feelings for each other. Tuli decides to step away from the wedding planning. On the wedding day, Tuli receives a call from Sally offering to invest in his business, and Jessica, in her wedding gown, approaches him. The outcome of their love is uncertain.
- This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.
- Naude and Katja Dreyer embark on a mission to rescue seals entangled in deadly plastic pollution on the Namibian coastline. What begins as a few spur-of-the-moment rescues evolves into an organization pitted against a global crisis.
- The fight for Namibias liberation after the colonialisation and the genocide commited by Germany and Britain.
- In the stark desert landscape of the Kalahari a troubled police officer battles to keep her small town from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past.
- In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, two lives intersect: George and Simeon. Two secrets. One unlikely meeting in a bar.
- The story of street kid surviving on the streets of Windhoek, Namibia.
- Katutura follows several characters experience the gravity of living in a Township where dreams are poised to die. As they remain hopeful in the face of adversity they are unaware their lives will collide in both hopeful and brutal ways.
- Ngilifa, who has prospered in the capital city of Windhoek, returns with his sophisticated urban wife to the rural village in Ovamboland, in northern Namibia, which he left 21 years ago. They seek out his younger brother who still lives in the village in order to "free" him from the "backward" traditional life as a cattle herder. A comedy of culture clash ensues as the film negotiates the relation between the urban worlds of modern Africa and its traditional roots.
- Toivo, a university student comes back to the City to finish his bachelor's degree. Upon arrival, he meets the face of disaster when his breadwinner brother, Simon, is murdered right before his eyes by a gang from which, Simon, borrowed money that he used to pay for Toivo's tuition. The series of events involves his home being burned, leaving him and his sister, Maggy, with nowhere to go. Amidst all the chaos, Toivo unknowingly joins the same gang that's responsible for his miserable life. As if that is not enough chaos, Toivo discovers that his sister, Maggy, has been prostituting herself in order to make ends meet since their brother's passing. As his life crumbles away, Toivo is forced to put himself through education, protect the family and come to terms with the revelation that has been in bed with the same individual responsible for his current life.
- A group of friends go out for a night of fun, but everything goes wrong and they end up waking up in someone's car with one of them lying dead on the road. Who did it? And why ?
- A story of how Rhino Poaching triggers social change in rural Namibia, seen through the eyes of a 9 year old girl.
- While bringing a deserted souvenir shop back to life, a lonely widower falls in love with the neighboring farmer who has his eye on the shop.
- Two thugs, a man with a gun, a furious girlfriend, an angry taxi driver, the police. And one unlucky guy in the middle.
- TV MovieIn an attempt to win back her community from a group of skilled karate delinquents, a protective single mother starts a neighborhood watch with the help of a kind martial artists' trainer who has a rivalry with the delinquents' Master.
- Leni Riefenstahl's journey back to Sudan at the age of 97. She attempts to meet with people of the Nuba tribe, in a village she lived in and photographed during the 1970s.
- TV Movie
- TV MovieA former soccer coach, haunted by his tragic past, reluctantly accepts a job coaching a struggling high school team, hoping for redemption.
- This mini documentary combines archive footage from the set of the Namibian short film "BEEF" and conversations between the director of the same film and key players 10 years later.
- The Desert Soul team produced a 26 episode television series, targeting adults and young adults. The series covered numerous topics, including HIV/AIDS, bullying, children's rights, disability and road safety.
- The film follows Vezuva, a young Ovaherero woman who returns from her studies abroad, in Germany, only to discover that her married cousin has died, and that according to tradition, she is expected to marry her cousin's widower.
- Hairareb is a unique portrayal of love and materialism in a time of devastating drought. An aging farmer weds a beautiful, and materialistic young bride, in a bid to save his farm from a devastating drought. Tragedy follows as the unlikely pairing struggle to untangle their growing feelings of love from their originally nefarious motives, both harboring secrets that can destroy the others' hopes and reveal their greatest fears. Set in a dry and harsh landscape, capturing the desperation and aching thirst of the land and the people that inhabit it, the story is brought to life by the delicate portrayal of uncontrolled greed and cunning, tempered by naivete and innocence, and ultimately the genuine affection that grows between the lead characters.
- Uushimba is a story off a young man Hangula who arrives in the city to seek greener pastures. He gets caught up with his cousin Tangeni's thug lifeways and becomes a recruit in Tangeni's gang. An opportunity presents itself for Hangula to pursue his ambitions of a career in art, but Tangeni convinces him to do one last robbery job with them before he is willing to help realize Hangula's dreams. After the death of his grandmother, Hangula leaves for Windhoek to go stay with his cousin Tangeniand to have a better chance of pursuing his art career. When Hangula arrives in Windhoek, Tangeni promises to find him a job so he can earn his upkeep. Tangeni takes him along to a gambling house downtown. It turns out that Tangeni is a thug and a leader of a violent gang, which includes his two friends Kalipi and Gibson. Tangeni and his boys live off armed robbery attacks on local businesses in the city. Then during the robbery, while Hangula stands guard he meets beautiful Katrina, who works at a local gallery and in search of the newest upcoming artist for a scholarship program. She fills him on the art competition. Hangula meets Katrina again and shares his dream of becoming an architect, as he is passionate about art. Tangeni needs Hangula for another heist they want to pull, but Hangula is reluctant. Tangeni promises him that after this robbery he will help him pursue his art career. During the robbery one thing lead to another resulting in Hangula having to make a decision that leaves him traumatized. With the help of Katrina, Hangula builds an outstanding art piece which in the end wins him the art scholarship.
- Fish means life for Walvis Bay, a harbour town along the Skeleton Coast. A handful of people take us into their world and show us how deep their love is for fish.
- During the dry and desolate Namibian winter a tough cop is hot on the heels of an ice-cold killer. Her investigations unravel when a reporter publishes dark secrets from her shady past. But the cop is determined to catch the killer, even if she has to break the law.
- An orphaned, physically disabled school girl faces the challenges of life.
- Tells the story of youngsters who went into the wild for commercial and entertainment purposes, but this seemed to be a Journey to the Dead, after they find a deformed human being which got taste for human flesh.
- The Unseen is about art, identity and solitude. It presents three interconnected vignettes that follow three different characters as they slip into spaces in Namibian society mostly unseen.
- TV Series
- This is a self-contained pilot episode for a documentary series where 2 adventurers build their own plane to land anywhere. First destination Namibia - where they wild land and follow diverse stories fuelled by the chemistry between the adventurous pilots and their frank, humorous engagement with the characters they meet who in turn reveal different facets of Namibia's history and geography.
- Imagine how life must be for someone whose skin has no protection whatsoever from the sun. And now imagine living in a country that averages over 80% sunshine during any given year. Welcome to Paulus's life in Namibia.
- TV MovieTwo police officers facing a disciplinary hearing, have to prove that they are as capable as anyone else by catching the most notorious criminal in the city.
- The hunt for the B1 Butcher
- Creative entrepreneur Ndinomholo meets some of Namibia's most incredible human beings who share what they do to not only walk through a global pandemic, but to walk forward into an unknown and thrilling future.
- Two individuals run into each other at a low point in their lives and go on a journey of self-love and freedom. Traveling the majestic Namibian outback, landscape of the psyche of a post-Apartheid nation and theirs, they find their place.
- 8 hours, 8 people, 1 city: A series of events and circumstances connects different lives from completely different backgrounds from one end to the other end of town until they all end up in public hospital, where the rich guy must wait in line and the gangster meets Jesus. 'Try' is a fast-paced, multiple-narrative drama about love, friendship, family, loyalty, revenge and the serendipity of life unfolding in the heart of Windhoek, Namibia.
- TV MovieHaving retired from a life of crime, Lubinda returns to the criminal underworld to rescue his rebellious daughter from the jaws of his vengeful criminal friends.
- TV MovieA young, ambitious soccer player will stop at nothing to come out of his late father's shadow and make the National team despite facing a long string of setbacks.
- A group of friends want to let loose with some underage drinking in an abandoned house; where a man killed himself and his family. They take it a step further and conjure his spirit. It's all fun and games, until he replies, and kills.
- Set during Apartheid in Namibia, 'Dead River' follows the unlikely friendship of a farm worker's son and the farmer's daughter. David and Lisa meet through the melodies she plays on her flute and he whistles. Lisa's disgruntled father outlaws the friendship and sends his daughter to the hostel. Before the end of Apartheid, Lisa returns to the farm as a young woman and meets David again. Events take a turn for the worse and Lisa sees no other option than to flee the country. Many years later Lisa returns. She is here to face her past and to visit the graves at Dead River.
- Etosha National Park, Namibia's premier wildlife park and tourism hot spot, celebrates its centenary on March 22nd 2007. 'Chums' as the original inhabitants, the Heikum San, call it, mesmerizes and hypnotizes the human spirit through its massive waterless saline pan, formed, according to local lore, when the tears of a Heikum mother, who lost her child, evaporated.
- Great cinema is what happens while you're busy waiting... for permission.