From Dust We Spin
CULTURE: The smoke and noise of Cape Flats racing culture.
Durban FilmMart
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
GAZA: In a bare South African sound stage, nine Palestinian refugees trace the outline of a home country now gone.
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.
Articulating instability: Broken Windows, Eyes to See, & My Jebba Story
ENCOUNTERS SA: Across three shorts presented within the Encounters South African International Documentary film festival programme, social, ephemeral and epistemic instability are approached through distinct, not-easily synthesised registers.
The Eyes of Ghana
CINEMA: Through Chris Hesse’s recollections, Ghana’s post-independence archive becomes a record of liberation shadowed by the threat of political erasure.
Truck Mama
LABOUR: Shot in an intimate verité style, Zipporah Nyaruri’s Truck Mama places us beside Evaline on the road, where maternal guilt sits uneasily beside the demands of survival.
Kikuyu Land
KENYA: From the National Land Commission to the tea estates of Kenya’s highlands, one family’s claim reveals how colonial dispossession continues to shape belonging.