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6SENSE
6SENSE is the inspirational story of a visually-impaired music producer, Mxshi Mo, whose gqom music takes the world by surprise…
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Ballaké Sissoko
The kora is so integral to the culture of West Africa that the top players are akin to royalty. Over…
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Black People Don’t Get Depressed
As the title of this engaging documentary suggests, depression is often unacknowledged in indigenous Southern African cultures and is instead…
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Bye Bye Tiberias
This intimately made film chronicles the life and family history of the great Palestinian actress Hiam Abbas, most familiar to…
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Cape-Helena
Cape-Helena explores the lesser-known history of St Helena Island, a place where our narrator looks for answers on his father’s…
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Dead Lagoon
Dead Lagoon documents the deterioration of the Kpeshi lagoon due to dumping, deforestation, and climate change. It is told through…
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Death of a Saint
On Christmas Eve of 1989, a woman was killed by two intruders in her family home in Uganda. Decades later,…
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Diary of an Elephant Orphan
Diary of an Elephant Orphan follows Khanyisa, a baby elephant newly orphaned, on her journey in becoming strong enough to…
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Fading Footprints
Fading Footprints explores the life of the Ju/’hoansi tribe, one of the last remaining Khoi-San tribes, as 60 000 years’…
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I Did Not Ask for This!
I Did Not Ask for This! tells the story of Tsakane Motshweni, who experienced sexual violence in a juvenile detention…
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I don’t want to lose sight of her
Ek wil nie myself verloor nie is a heartfelt documentary which portrays Carol de Swardt’s voluntary death in Switzerland, with…
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Illusion of Distance
Illusion of Distance delves into the life of Boeta Allie, an 80-year-old coloured man who grew up in District 6,…
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Johatsu
In Japan, around 80,000 people disappear every year. Most of them are eventually found or return home but thousands of…
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London Recruits
London Recruits seamlessly fuses dramatic reenactments with contemporary interviews and a rich pool of archive footage to tell the story…
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Love Me True
Love Me True is a groundbreaking documentary that uses animation to portray a weekend in the dating life of Laurence,…
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Love, Your Neighbour
Love, Your Neighbour is a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the South African suburbia, as a filmmaker attempts to connect with…
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Masiphumelele
Masiphumelele explores the history of an informal settlement established in the early 1980s and the present-day work of the youth…
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Mother City
Three decades after the end of apartheid, Cape Town remains one of the world’s most unequal and racially segregated cities.…
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My Land is Burned
My Land is Burned uncovers the lives of Syrian families and their caretakers in a refugee camp in Arsal, Lebanon.…
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My Mercury
Set on the remote Mercury Island, off the coast of Namibia, My Mercury explores the life of Yves, a conservationist…
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No Other Land
No Other Land is filmmaker Basel Adra’s powerful first-person account of living in the Palestinian village of Masafer Yatta, located…
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Of Bread and Water
Set within a fishing community on the West Coast, Of Bread and Water explores the life of Witbrood, a fisherman…
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Our Land, Our Freedom
A quest for answers results in so much more in the film Our Land, Our Freedom. We follow a Kenyan…
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Over My Dead Body
In a poignant exploration of death, Oor My Dooie Liggaam explores how children perceive and understand death. Set around the…
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Playing the Changes
Playing the Changes documents the life of Jazz pianist Darius Brubeck, as he recounts a life of pioneering the musical,…
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Raw
Raw (Rou) is a lamentation on the slow death of a South African rural town, Nthoroane, through an exploration of…
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Rollaball
Meet skate soccer teammates: ambitious and volatile Smallee and talented but troubled Dungu. The friendship that has kept them afloat…
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Samar… Before the Final Picture
Set between Cairo and Dubai, Samar…Before the Final Picture explores a story of resilience and healing through Samar, a victim…
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Temperature Rising
Set between the COP26 and COP27 climate conferences, Temperature Rising follows the lives of three climate activists as they tackle…
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The Friendship Bench
The Friendship Bench is a grassroots mental health initiative in Zimbabwe led by determined psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda. Through raw and…
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The Return
In The Return, South African writer Heidi Grunebaum returns to the German city of Hungen, from where her grandmother was…
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Tomorrow it will be fine
Lobi Ekosimba gives a snapshot of daily life in DR Congo’s Goma, where people try to thrive despite the civil…
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We are on the map
We are on the map is a narrative documentary in which Santiago Rodriguez Cardenas uses Google Earth to tell the…
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Wild Coast Warriors
Wild Coast Warriors explores the fight against the establishment of oil exploration operations by the Shell corporation in the Wild…
