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A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

Six people meet in the Kalahari desert: a female NYC lawyer flying with a local zoologist/pilot in a mini-plane, a Cuban and an African soldier taking each other POW, a Boer elephant poacher, and a Bushman looking for his two children.

Story of drug addiction and murder

Gentle, beautiful pacifist Emma witnesses a murder in the wild - six violent men killing a cop in cold blood. They hunt her like an animal in the desolate Karoo. She should have been easy prey. But life is full of surprises

Nadia van Heerden is a loving, ambitious orphan who dreams of becoming the head-girl of her school. Other girls have the same ambition but are not worried about how they achieve it. Nadia and her classmates learn that a good leader is someone who can inspire by example and is not always in the limelight.

The journey, misadventures, and sexual mishaps of an up and coming musician.

A film based on the true life story of a young man who becomes a storyteller in jail.

A young chess prodigy on Cape Town's violent Cape Flats is torn between the game and gang pressure, as lives intersect in a battle for redemption and survival.

A conventional music teacher lives for his singing group who are outcasts at their sport-mad school. Circumstances force the group to stand up for what they believe in, because when they sing, they find meaning in life.

On her 29th birthday, Aletta Vlok gets wedding fever. She starts arranging her wedding before she even has a man. Boetie Bouwer, a mechanic, is convinced that he is the man for Aletta, but when the big day arrives, everything goes wrong.

This 1975 feature film deals with the mischievous young Trompie and the misadventures he and his gang of friends embark upon. Based on the books by Topsy Smith.

During the dry and desolate Namibian winter a tough cop is hot on the heels of an ice-cold killer. Her investigations unravel when a reporter publishes dark secrets from her shady past. But the cop is determined to catch the killer, even if she has to break the law.

In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christelle and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true-crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the truth about these murders, however difficult and upsetting it might be.

In an Afrikaner stronghold obsessed with masculinity, emotionally frail Janno's mother takes in hardened orphan Pieter, wanting them to be brothers. A power struggle ensues between the contrasting boys over heritage and parental love.

After Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It's not long before Schucks discovers that his boss, Jack Paddaman, is morally crooked, but it's too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed. A year later, Schucks is no better off. However, his candid-camera videos that poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. Then the President asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, and Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop, and a cunning street kid, and you have a roll-in-the-aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

Workshoped with inmates from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

Portrait of a closeted gay husband/father living a life of quiet middle-aged desperation who becomes fixated on a friend's handsome collegiate son, leading to an incident.

A three-paneled look at the worldwide A.I.D.S. crisis. Three tragic stories taking place in South Africa, China, and Montréal.

A young woman is desperate to save her company from a take-over. When she hears that being in a relationship will get her a deal, she hires a model to be her fake boyfriend.

In apartheid-ruled South Africa, a renowned lawyer struggles to hide his secret affiliation to the nation's chief resistance movement - as he takes on defending a group of its arrested members, including its leader, Nelson Mandela.

Basson has five days to get to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but he needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian Amory. As they journey across South Africa's breathtaking landscape, they meet wonderful characters who allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden bad turn when a villainous figure appears. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, en route to true love is where you will find your true north.

An Afrikaans sex comedy that follows the adventures of a third-year student and his buddy at their holiday job. Desperate to lose his virginity, he hooks up with a hot babe for some hanky-panky, then discovers that her ex-boyfriend does not understand the 'ex' part and wants to get violent.

It's summertime and the family is on their way to a seaside resort. But there is a businessman looking to buy the resort and build timeshare apartments In its place and is set to ruin the holiday for the families in the resort.

A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?

Wimpie Koekemoer--the biggest geek in school. He is constantly embarrassed by his conservative mother and his strange father, especially in front of girls. Wimpie dreams of being popular. His dream could unexpectedly become a reality when the most popular girl in school, Katrien Swanepoel, is dumped by first-team rugby centre Werner 'Killer' Botha. Katrien and her friends Liezl and Christie decide to give Werner a taste of his own medicine by planning to make Wimpie the new first team centre. Rugby is a lot harder than Karien and Wimpie anticipated and Wimpie almost gives up. Fortunately, his unexpected popularity leads to friendship with school rascals Japie and Fanie. The mischievous duo unknowingly convince Wimpie to keep playing rugby although they're much more interested in pajama parties with girls. Bakgat is finding yourself, despite high school.