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Policemen Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the brutal murder of a young white woman, apparently provoked by the availability of a new illegal drug and somehow connected to the disappearance of black street children.

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.

A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

A prodigious young soccer player from rural Queenstown must face the return of his washed-up, pro-footballer father, and navigate the choice between his team's success and his own dreams. All that and more

Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.

An aging, womanizing professional boxer and his career-criminal brother take one last shot at success and get more than they've bargained for.

A strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.

A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.

One man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.

Inkedama: The Orphan. A powerful story of a small boy who puts up a struggle against all odds of life. He wins through to become top surgeon. Even this has it's problems. With Cynthia Shange and Ray Msengana

Nomaliphathwe Gwele, a young single mother of two, which one being a disable infant, decides to improve her life. She joins a group in a land occupation action, to build her own shack in the new slum, risking violent evictions.

While investigating a smugglers' turf war in Cape Town, township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption. He must set loyalty aside to act with integrity, alone.

Joe, a small-town abattoir worker, leads us on this allegorical journey. His dream to fly has impelled him to construct his own helicopter. Its a ramshackle assembly of scrap and found objects. The machine has no real practical capability aside from standing as a monument to his individuality. It becomes evident that an art buyer has offered money for the flamboyant creation, a mixed blessing that has caused a fracas. The community are unjustifiably demanding a stake in the potential spoils. Joe must fight them off, or lose all he has worked for.

The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and her illness unnoticed at first even by her closest friends - cannot but send a chilling chord in our modern world.

Armed with her traditional Xhosa uhadi, acclaimed musician Indwe embarks on a musical pilgrimage through South Africa's past and the events that led to the 1956 Women's March to Pretoria. This saw 1000s of women from Port Elizabeth boarding trains, determined to take part in an historical landmark in the struggle against the apartheid regime. Indwe tracks down some women to collect and record their personal accounts and the songs they sang on that momentous day. Her voice melds with theirs as she interprets their stories through her music. It's a highly evocative musical meeting of past and present.

For over 120 years hundreds of thousands of black men from the countries of Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce the wealth of South Africa. Today these mining communities face severe poverty and the world's greatest epidemic of silicosis and tuberculosis caused by exposure to silica dust in gold mines. The true cost of South Africa's wealth is revealed by the juxta-positioning of present day gold miner stories with an archival voice created from state and mining records and repurposed industrial documentaries and propaganda films. The archival voice further reveals the untold story of how industrialised South Africa was built on a foundation of modern slavery based on a vast system of recruitment that utilized propaganda films since the early 1900's. Dying for Gold is also a story of mad love that holds men, women and children through experiences of unspeakable pain and death.

In Cape Town's informal settlements, the government never built a sewage system, hence the absence of flush toilets. Each resident must therefore devise an individualized solution to dispose of their excrement.

Babalwa, battered and haunted, sits at the edge of a hospital bed, grappling with the trauma of the recent attack. Flashbacks reveal glimpses of the nightmarish crime that took her friend's life and left her fighting for her own.