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- In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
- A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
- Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
- A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
- Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
- South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
- Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him he couldn't contact their other brother Stephen. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid: not always for the better for Black men.
- An undercover cop risks his career (and life) to settle a score.
- A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
- 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls follows the lives and loves of four thirty-something women in contemporary Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Ha Molefi is an emotional story about a relationship between a grieving father and son, focusing on the raw and honest emotional turmoil that both face, especially concerning the son's identity.
- A thug trades his life of crime for the church life when a pastor's daughter steals his heart But will his love be enough to make the ultimate sacrifice and give his life when his past comes knocking? Clive ditches his criminal ways when he falls in love with Nandi a church girl, but their love is doomed from the beginning facing opposition from Nandi's parents and Jazz, Clive's cousin. Things come to a head when Clive's past is exposed, and he finds himself being rejected like an outcast by the church and Nandi gets a marriage proposal from Mandla who Nandi's parents prefer. In frustration, Clive decides to join Jazz and get back to the life he once knew (crime), and join Jazz's mission is to rob the church. On the day of the hit, Clive takes a bullet to save Nandi and her father and gets his cousin arrested after he tipped the police off and they end up together with the church taking him back as they realize he is not his past.
- This series chronicles around a group of four male friends who have been friends from childhood into adulthood. We follow these men as they struggle with the mundane of everyday life and their relationships with strong-willed and opinionated women who refuse to have their voices suppressed.
- This film plunges into the lives of a group of African Americans who have come to South Africa to find the American dream.
- An Afrikaans Woman's car breaks down and she's forced to take a minibus taxi. Misunderstandings and cultural confusion see her end up in Soweto, where she learns more about herself
- Still in his role as the innocent Brit in Africa, ludicrously encumbered by earphones and microphones, Broomfield turns to Chicco Twala - one of South Africa's black millionaires.
- Documentary about Abdullah Ibrahim, one of the leading musicians from South Africa.
- Two young siblings, Love & Kwaito face life in the harsh Kliptown streets without their parents. Ready to face whatever life throws her way, Love, makes sacrifices that no child should ever have to make.
- USKROEF NO SEXY is a saucy, fresh and sexy comedy from Johannesburg's burgeoning indie film scene. The film is set in Soweto, the apartheid-era township that today is characterized by social unrest and also lively cultural activity (the internationally popular Kwaito music style has its origins in Soweto). "Sexy" is a young dude from the ghetto who has set his sights on Sandton, a high-class "sistah" who treats Sexy like he's out of her league. Sexy's pal and gang mentor Skroef also thinks that Sexy's is biting off more than he can chew. So Skroef poses this challenge: if Sexy can convince Sandton to go on a first date, Skroef will bankroll all subsequent ones - no minor investment, as Sandton is accustomed to stepping out in style.
- Lebo Mathosa was one of South Africa's most promising musicians and kwaito stars. She was destined for great things - until her life was cut tragically short. Revisit her tumultuous life.
- When the truth of his Father's disappearance is brought to the surface on the eve of his execution, Khetha, a prison warder in Pretoria South Africa must either choose forgiveness or live forever with regret of failing to accept the truth.
- A documentary short about the growing number of African children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The film was screened at the United Nations Headquarters (NYC) for World Aids Day in December 1999, and before members of US Congress as part of a briefing on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in April 2000.
- Set in the buzzing city of Johannesburg, 'Opus' follows a day in the life of Lebo, a young aspiring bassist living in the informal settlements. After losing his parents and inheriting the double bass instrument 'Bontle', Lebo has developed a symbiotic relationship with his 'Bontle' and his music, which have made him an outsider in the community, but have become his anchor for getting him through his poverty-stricken life and the harsh city landscape.
- The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business establishment for neo-liberal development policies are not supported by modern economic science. More importantly, it dramatically demonstrates how the implementation of these policies is having disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe.
- Each week, Khanyi Mbau interviews South African local celebrities. Guests are not limited to actors, singers, fashion designers - there are also an array of controversial politicians and even entertainment personalities.
- Can you and your friends slow the spread of a devastating global disease? (and promote other positive behaviors?) A Social Cure tells the stories of five unique individuals as their lives intersect with the HIV epidemic in South Africa. These stories together reveal humanity's newfound ability to affect change through our own personal relationships.
- Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas who speak of their lives and desires as homosexuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Hammer was invited to have a retrospective in summer, 1994, at the first Gay and Lesbian film festival on the African continent. She wanted to do more than screen her films and videos; she wanted to teach video production skills in the townships. These workshops provide the deeply moving stories lesbians and gays told to one another.
- Kazimla has had to be a tender age. Sometimes in life, one needs to make lemonade from the lemons that one is handed and always find the silver lining in the very dark clouds that life hands to us
- Against the backdrop of the 2010 World Cup lead-up, Hooking in JoBurg takes a unique and personal look at sex workers.
- Based on the feature film 'uSkroef noSexy', This is a story of two best friends who have dreams to move up in life only to find out that to be tender-preneurs is no easy way to chase the South African Dream.
- Documentary report on township violence in South Africa, focusing on the hospital in Soweto which deals with more 100 victims of assault every night in addition to trying to cope with a growing AIDS problem.
- While growing up in Detroit, Kristian Hill heard about Mandela, whose icon status grew even more after he gained his freedom and served as South African president. Curious to find out about the incredible man for himself, Kristian heads to South Africa and meets with locals in Joburg, Cape Town and Soweto to hear from art gallery owners, local businessmen and others just what Mandela means to them. In learning about Mandela and getting to know South Africa, Hill increases his appreciation for Mandela's accomplishments and his personal connection to Africa. His camera is our window into his journey and his emotions on this once-in-a-lifetime first trip to South Africa.
- Lerato, a bitter and emotionally scarred wedding cake baker, unveils a life changing secret when her estranged father pays her a surprise visit after twenty years.
- In December 2008, a group of 10 people went from Belgium to Soweto to create a "Murga" together with South African partners. They had to explain together what a "Murga" is (a kind of parading band that is popular in Argentina and has growing popularity in some European cities) and work closely to form such a group in three weeks, assembling talents in four disciplines (dance, music, costumes and spoken-word). The process was followed by a murga-film-crew, a non-professional, cooperative group of filmmakers with the mission to portray the people and the process.
- A crime thriller revolving around the car-theft industry in Soweto.
- Our story begins with the introduction of two female Londoners on the first leg of their 21-day journey around the world in the bicentenary year of the abolition of the slave trade act. The world of middle aged West Indians now intrudes upon the year out backpacking community and the conflict within our documentary thereby begins.
- A young girl living in a rural township finds that giving a gift can sometime bear harsh consequences.
- An evocative nocturnal journey, set to Byron's poem 'She Walks in Beauty Like the Night'.
- This documentary reveals the position of South Africa's women today; their stories are mediated through the experiences of three major artists in South Africa's hip hop scene.
- Despite her late mother's house being left in her name, a young woman is letting her controlling older brother run it out of respect.