south africa
Sing Your Song: Harry Belafonte
Told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary SING YOUR SONG surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as [...]
Forgiveness
From Oscar®-nominated director Helen Whitney, this powerful film explores the act of forgiveness through a wide range of stories, from personal to national, illuminating its power, its limitations and, in some cases, its dangers.
Too White for Me
Still in his role as the innocent Brit in Africa, ludicrously encumbered by earphones and microphones, Broomfield turns to Chicco Twala – one of South Africa’s black millionaires. Chicco Twala made his pile out of [...]
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife
The film portrays the sinister and comic sides of the Leader – Eugene Terre’Blanche – and his followers of the AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. The Leader is followed around the country as he [...]
His Big White Self
Broomfield revisits his classic and lethal documentary on the Boer separatist Eugene Terre Blanche. This time, he had to go back in disguise, apparently as a character from a Jilly Cooper novel. Bearding the biblical [...]
World Cup Soccer In Africa: Who Really Wins?
For four action-packed weeks in June and July 2010, the largest international television audience to ever follow a single event will be watching FIFA’s soccer World Cup in South Africa. But as the nations of [...]
Endgame
This is a gripping and sophisticated political thriller full of intriguing and unexpected heroes. South Africa, 1985. The country is under siege. Sanctions are biting, Mandela’s imprisonment is an international cause celebre, and the ANC [...]
