Durban FilmMart
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Marxism and Period Pains
WOMEN'S HEALTH: From classrooms to workplaces, women and girls describe the expectation to perform through pain, revealing how capitalism, patriarchy, and medical inequality turn the body into another site of discipline.
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Notes from the Underground
MUSIC: Forced removal, racialised geography, and cultural survival converge in a layered portrait of Cape hip-hop.
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Inside Durban IFF: A Conversation with Festival Manager Andrea Voges
DURBAN IFF: Drawing on nearly two decades in festival curation and arts management, Andrea Voges spoke about DIFF’s post-pandemic recovery, this year’s 85-film line-up
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Mothers of Chibok
TRAUMA: Nigerian mothers confront rape, loss, and systemic silence with dignity and defiance in an elegy for a wounded nation.
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Didy
MEMORY: A son’s journey to rediscover his mother unearths buried memories and reveals the silenced strength of Rwandan women.
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