DFM Talent Press

  • From Dust We Spin

    From Dust We Spin

    CULTURE: The smoke and noise of Cape Flats racing culture.

  • After Oil

    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.

  • Dear Ancestor

    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

  • Who Is Still Alive

    Who Is Still Alive

    GAZA: In a bare South African sound stage, nine Palestinian refugees trace the outline of a home country now gone.

  • FOSTA

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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