Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
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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.
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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.
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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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Where Zebus Speak French
POST-COLONIALISM: A community compelled into powerful resistance to defend their culture and legacy against foreign forces seeking to erase their land, lives, and history.
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