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Ancestral Visions of the Future: Lemohang Mosese’s sacred docufiction
By Tshi Malatji Ancestral Visions of the Future is a meditative and deeply poetic work that transcends conventional storytelling, blending autobiography, ethnography, documentary

When the Body Becomes Scripture: Inside Danse Macabre
By Alice Johnson In Danse Macabre, the body becomes scripture. Drawing on Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, Yoruba cosmology, and fragments of global performance

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, when memory clings to silence and place
There is something ghostly about Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. Not in the horror sense, but in the way memory clings

Being you, “be kinder to who you once were !”
There are films that dazzle you with plot twists and visual spectacle, and then there are films like Being You; quiet, deeply personal,

Pigcasso―A human story about a pig that paints
Riley Hlatshwayo July 19th, 2025 Stefan Enslin’s documentary feature, Pigcasso: The Million Dollar Pig, is an interesting story that makes one sit down

Street Trash : A Fledged Cape Town Horror
By Tshi Malatji Street Trash, an homage to the 1987 film of the same name, is an electrifying body-horror science-fiction showing the prowess

The Weekend questions blind loyalty to family
If family is forever, where do you draw the line when it starts to demand blood? In The Weekend, director Daniel Oriahi delivers

A Waking Film | God’s Work Review
By Tshi Malatji God’s Work merges fiction and reality through surreal dream sequences and satirical commentary, overshadowed by the dramatic portrayal of a

Fleas: A Harrowing Allegory of Xenophobia in South Africa
By Tshi Malatji Amazeze are fleas, considered nuisances to their community. Jordy Sank’s short film could not be more on-the-nose as its main

Coming out to come-of-age | Review of Black Burns Fast
By Tshi Malatji Black Burns Fast is a coming-of-age romance set in a South African all-girls religious boarding school, where scholarship student Luthando
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