Cannes Projects

In this wacky and hilarious 70’s comedy, Adrianne, a drag artist, unites the small, South African farming town of Gatsverlate previously divided by racial and sexual barriers. Can he fool everyone in the town and save it from disappearing beneath the waters of the soon to be constructed dam?

Johannesburg goes from bust to boom in the run up to the world cup, the poor are being driven out as the city finds itself hostage to the power of real estate capital. But the poor fight back with some unorthodox means.

Who do you choose to be, alone in a 250 million year old desert, when you are faced by an unpredictable, savage intelligence, genetically unrelated to humans, that mirrors the violence of your own collective back at you?

Hitchcock meets Steven King. The Consequence, offers a fresh and intelligent take on fear in a haunting setting, with a never seen before antagonist.

Over 12 hours, the repercussions of poverty in the new South propel a variety of very different people to a crossroads of choices that will make the difference between life and death.

A naive young girl with low self esteem wants to be as beautiful as her mother but her dream is almost ruined by a cynical man who gives her a dose of reality which makes her resort to extremes to achieve her goal.

The four corners of a chessboard and the four corners of a prison cell are the battlegrounds for the soul of teenage ghetto kid, Ricardo Galam, and he has to choose.

A heart rendering account of the turbulent relationship between writer Ken Saro Wiwa and his son Ken Wiwa set against the backdrop of Saro Wiwa's fight for his people.

A young girl and her little brother leave their rural homestead for the city when they are orphaned, and meet up with a gang of street kids. Hoping to fulfill their mother’s dream, in the end they find their own.

A comedy writer’s life is quickly going down the drain and his only salvation is to trawl the treacherous streets of Johannesburg in search of the thing he most desperately needs, his sense of humour.

A talented young South African radio DJ rises to fame from the streets of Soweto but when he becomes ill with AIDS, he denies responsibility, until he realizes he has infected the woman he loves.

Featuring an all-star cast and a soundtrack that includes the most well-known afrikaans songs from the 70s to today, this is a love story in the tradition of recent spectacular cinematic musicals.

The world’s oldest culture hovers at the brink of extinction… but for a miracle. Three determined Khomani SAN embark on a journey to save themselves and their heritage.

The film examines what “truth” and “reconciliation” mean for one ordinary man: Sipho, an ageing black librarian in the township of New Brighton. It shows his painful journey towards confronting his own experiences under apartheid: the killing of his son, shot dead by police, and the rift with his brother, an activist who went into exile.

On an overland trip through Africa, two young backpacker girls find their holiday adventure turning into a nightmare as they fight for their lives and their sanity against a disturbed serial killer.

It was the game that made South Africa a nation. Mandela’s shinning moment and his greatest legacy. The international rugby board called it: “A victory for South Africa and a triumph for Humanity”.

A retired judge writing his memoirs at an isolated cabin takes in a hiker lost in the wilderness. Only the hiker is not really lost and this is no chance meeting.

When the daughter of a botanist, on sabbatical on a newly acquired farm in the Kwa-Zulu Natal midlands, starts talking to the restless spirit of a murdered man, the botanist has to choose between the rational and the spiritual in a battle to save their lives.

SKIN is a story of family, forgiveness and the triumph of the human spirit.

Although, the production of the cinematic image in South Africa dates back to the earliest days of the twentieth century, following closely on its European and American antecedents, no film or documentary series has ever been undertaken to unpack the 100 years of its chequered history. This 4 part series explores how SA cinema was first used to record and celebrate European and Colonial culture, then to promote an ideology, dividing a nation separated by apartheid, to finally, becoming a space for the expression of all South Africa’s hopes and dreams with the arrival of democracy.

When Swedish donors decide to see how their funds are being spent in the small South African township of Stockholm on a farm in Zululand, hard-working, honest, local teacher Moses must participate in a grand deception to keep the funds flowing. But what if he falls in love with the Swedish team leader?

The coming of age story of a group of Soweto teenagers who surf moving trains.

When a misunderstanding draws an apolitical man into deadly altercation with the police, it sparks South Africa's first anti-apartheid uprising. As a moment of racist stupidity explodes into a weekend of hell, he is forced to choose between vengeful anger and a growing sense of what's worth fighting for and how...

1980s Zimbabwe: When her father vanishes, young Elizabeth believes he has dug a tunnel to the city. Only by facing reality will she discover the truth behind his disappearance.

A white South African’s journey to belonging.

A high-spirited young falcon determined to be independent of his stifling father discovers that the greatest thing he can fight for is community.