DFM Talent Press
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After Oil
OIL: Boima Tucker travels from a ministerial stage to an informal settlement in Mathare, tracing how Africa's shift away from oil still runs on old patterns of who benefits and who absorbs the cost.
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Dear Ancestor
CLIMATE: Set in a future still governed by the past, Dear Ancestor watches Malagasy fishermen and farmers defend sacred land against rare earth mining
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Who Is Still Alive
GAZA: In a bare South African sound stage, nine Palestinian refugees trace the outline of a home country now gone.
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FOSTA
MUSIC: What does rehabilitation look like? FOSTA, the titular subject in this documentary, seeks to show us through his journey from the violent gangs in the Cape Flats to the electrifying world of Electronic Dance Music.
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Ordinary resistance: Eyes to See, Robots, Broken Windows, A Place Called Paradise
ENCOUNTERS SA: From Johannesburg’s intersections to rural Suurbrak, four short documentaries from Encounters South African International Documentary Film festival examine how South Africans survive, heal, and care for their surroundings.
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Marginal neighbourhoods: Amigo the Griot, Just because I’m a Street Kid, My Jebba Story
ENCOUNTERS SA: Three short films from Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival look at urban African life through figures who refuse victimhood.
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Artistic vulnerability: Concerto, Curtain Call, Just Because I’m a Street Kid
ENCOUNTERS SA: Three short films peek behind the kimono of the art-making process and the realities of the art we consume.

