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- After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
- "Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
- An interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black prisoner living in a Cape Town penal colony and a Dutch sailor -- who weather injustices as a result of their affair.
- 4 young South Africans go on a camping trip to the white girl's family farm. When they wake up next day, they've magically switched bodies. Later, when they've switched back, they're interviewed documentary style.
- Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman profile the life of Liberian activist Silas Siakor, a tireless crusader against illegal logging and a symbol of resistance for a new generation.
- Winnie Madikizela Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguingly powerful contemporary female political figures. Her rise and seeming fall from grace, bear the hallmarks of epic tragedy.
- "The Prophet and The Space Aliens" follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials - that appointed him the "last prophet" - became the founder and leader of the world's biggest UFO religion.
- Using a Xhosa boy as a pawn, a farmer teaches his puppy to be white man's best friend. Ten years later, both their lives hang in the balance at the mercy of the dog.
- A rebellious young revolutionary becomes involved with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage.
- A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the armydodging Absi, over a fateful 24 hours in a rebel-held area of Sudan.
- The story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenge by war.
- Anna Ronquillo (29), a French-Moroccan émigré, is caught working illegally in a Cape Town restaurant. She has 48 hours to find a husband to avoid having to leave the country.
- Cape Town 1967. Womanizer Christian Barnard transplants the first human heart, but behind him stood an unknown black man: Hamilton Naki.
- A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's LGBT community.
- Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization into South Africa's ruling party, through the evolution of of the relationship between two of its most prominent cadres, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Exiled under Apartheid they were brothers in arms, under Mandela they loyally labored to build a non-racial state, now they are bitter rivals. Their duel threatens to tear apart the ANC and the country, as the poor desperately seek hope in change and the elite fight for the spoils of victory.
- A little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar.
- A housewife in her fifties discovers her true self when she has to accept her husband's second wife into her home.
- For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was Colonel Gadaffi's enemy number one in exile with a $1m bounty on his head. His dream of a 'free' Libya almost cost him his life and his family. Ashur's son uncovers a dangerous past and questions the choices his father made to inherit the mess Gadaffi left.
- When Brenda's daughter Aki vanishes, her search leads back to the Cape Town tavern where she worked as a prostitute before becoming a geisha in Japan. Can she ever truly escape her past?
- Tasha is a magical love story between a 14 year old boy from the city and a 14 year old girl from a small town. It's about those very first pangs of love where a simple kiss on the lips can amount to a taste and touch of heaven. And it's about how far a fragile insecure teenage boy is willing to go just to be accepted by the 'cool' kids, even rejecting the one true thing in his life... Tasha.
- Zackie Achmat is an HIV+ South African activist campaigning to make AIDS medications more widely available. As one aspect of his campaign the HIV-positive Achmat refuses to take the medications until they become available to everyone.
- This documentary, set in remote Transkei, uses the passage of time [dawn, noon and dusk] and a footpath that traverses a certain village as a metaphor for Life. Everyone must walk along it. There are interviews with the Sangomas who reflect on the symbolic presence of animals in divination, magic and the ancestors. The poetry of Xhosa poet and scholar Abner Nyamende features in a soundtrack that tries to suggest a harmony between classical European melodies and traditional Xhosa music.
- Luciano Armindo is a bright 12-year-old with a fascination for engineering and a remarkable hobby: he collects cardboard and wire scraps and meticulously designs and builds life-size models of helicopters.
- Lucy, a young woman with a pet snake, lives with Freddie, her father, in a desolate part of the country. Her dad leaves the house earlier than usual one day, heading for the his usual stool at a local bar. The landlord, Hugo, shows up at the house, looking for Freddie. Lucy is hardly dressed, and soon Hugo is assaulting her in lieu of the rent. But perhaps, this is Lucy's plan all along. And the wages of sin?
- A married man falls for his new neighbour and decides to dig a tunnel to her house in order to be with her.
- In 1990 The Separate Amenities Act, pillar stone of the apartheid regime, was scrapped from South Africa's law books. For the first time in the country's history prisoners both black and white were confined together to the same prison cells.
- The metaphor of a shipwreck, survival, and rebuilding serves as a backdrop to South Africans talking about the challenges and rewards of democracy and freedom. White and Black voices comment as animators give faces and images to the speakers and their words. For the White South Africans, it's finding themselves anew after the certainty of their future and the security of power are gone; for the Black South Africans, it's finding their way in a society of high unemployment but individual possibilities. At the end, we meet the five principal speakers as a chorus sings, "Freedom is here, tell me what's next."
- CROSSING THE LINE is a contemporary political thriller that confronts some of the dilemmas around power and corruption in South Africa. From the writer/director of THE LINE which was screened ten years ago to the biggest ever audience to watch a drama series in South Africa, the new series, CROSSING THE LINE, deals with contemporary issues and characters in a way that reflects the time and manages a glimpse at the state of the nation's complex soul. Journalist Mandla Kunene investigates allegations of corruption linked to a prominent government minister. The tip-off comes from the minister's jilted mistress - Irene. Mandla is only half interested but when Irene appears to have been pushed over her 6th floor balcony Mandla takes up the story and each step of the way his investigation is met with resistance - from his friends, his boss; investigators and the police.