South Africa Movies

The GALA Queer Archive, with the generous support of SAIH, commissioned a short film looking into the experiences of homeless transgender sex workers...

An improvised tragi-queer film about an older gay man who was once the (caviar and) toast of the gay rave scene. He takes care of the homes of...

A mysterious wild man known as Ivondwe has been held captive for years with the purpose of preventing his exposure to others. This, however, has only...

The story pays homage to the Langa and Sharpeville Massacres, which took place on March 21, 1960 in apartheid South Africa. The plot revolves around...

In this meditation on migration, loss of language, and the transcendence of reimagined forms of communication, filmmaker Abul Ajak explores how...

A poor and humble community is threatened by a powerful criminal known as Dlamini, extorting the under-privileged villagers for protection money...

One Table Two Elephants is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge...

Macko, the teddy bear, battles through the Land of Nightmares on a rescue mission to save Timmy from the Boogeyman.

For the diver, what she does and what she loves are two separate things. What she does comes at the cost of what she loves. She loves diving. This...

A film about dirt, gender and separations.

PG du Plessis’ story is set in rural South Africa during the seventies. A farmer buys a broken little cast iron stove to restore and transports...

Two friends in conflict about how to deal with an uncomfortable situation, but they see it thru together!

Discovered in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa in 1995 by Palaeo scientist Ron Clarke, this is the story of a twenty-one-year excavation of...

This short film is a story of love between a wooden man and stove child.

This is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape...