Marius Weyers and Sandra Prinsloo star in Twee Grade van Moord
NEW South African film, Twee Grade van Moord (Two Degrees of Murder), won the best film award at the Indie Karoo Festival, held from July 1 to 3 in Prince Albert in the Karoo. The movie stars two of South Africa’s most loved and respected actors, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers. Continue reading
FilmClub will be screening a classic of African cinema, the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety’s Hyenas. at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, July 5 at 7 pm. Continue reading
FilmClub is screening The World of Apu, the last and possibly the best of Satyajit Ray’s famous Apu trilogy, at 7 pm on Tuesday, June 28 at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg. Continue reading
Christia Visser (above right) was named best actress at the Durban International Film Festival for her role as Tess in Tess directed by Meg Rickards. The film was also named best SA feature film and won an award for best editing for Linda Man.
The Durban International Film Festival announced its award-winners at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 37th edition at the Playhouse on June 25, prior to the screening of the closing film, The Space in Between. Continue reading
Pictured in the prison courtyard China Boy (Presley Chweneyagae) and Buttons (Warren Masemola) decide on Magadien’s (Mothusi Magano) fate.
Award-winning director, Khalo Matabane (State of Violence, Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon and Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me), has begun shooting his latest feature, 28’s, a gritty exposé of life inside prison.
The film, inspired by Jonny Steinberg’s award-winning non-fiction novel, The Number, its big screen adaptation by Paul Ian Johnson reveals the origins of the fearsome numbers gangs that operate in prisons throughout South Africa. Continue reading
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The Durban FilmMart (DFM), the industry development programme of the Durban Film Office and the Durban International Film Festival, wrapped up on June 20 with an awards ceremony at the Tsogo Maharani Hotel in Durban, South Africa. Continue reading
The gritty new Meg Rickards-helmed feature film Tess, which will have its world premiere at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) on June 18, showcases the astounding talent of some of South Africa’s best actors. Chief amongst them is 20-year old Christia Visser who plays the title role and is certain to garner praise for her raw and powerful portrayal of a young streetwalker. Continue reading
Seven years after writer, Sean Drummond, and director, Michael Matthews, first set out on an 8000km research and development journey around the country, The Be Phat Motel Film Company and Game 7 Films’ Five Fingers for Marseilles, is taking its next big step to the big screen.
The film – which was a project at the 2013 Durban FilmMart – is a contemporary South African thriller modelled on the western and played in Sesotho and isiXhosa, with a top-tier, fully local cast. The movie begins production in the Eastern Cape in July 2016, in association with Stage 5 Films and Above the Clouds. Continue reading
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The Endless River stars French actor Nicolas Duvauchelle with Crystal-Donna Roberts.
Award-winning South African director Oliver Hermanus’ new film, The Endless River, will have its first South African screening at the Durban International Film Festival this month. Continue reading
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