Film

Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films and later endured drug addiction and stormy romances with show business...

It was no usual journey. During the eighties, ordinary Mozambicans, brought to brink of desperation by the post-independence civil war that ravaged...

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As part of the Open Design Festival, the Black Filmmakers’ Festival held a screening and discussion session in Cape Town’s City Hall, which...

For a black film and media student at the University of Cape Town, Spike Lee’s 'Do The Right Thing' (1989) was a revelation. I watched it on a...

In Carlo Collodi’s 1883 story The Adventures of Pinocchio, the eponymous puppet who hopes to become a real boy is led from the path of...

it’s nothing more than light, colour is political. Think of the way socialism is universally synonymous with the colour red, or how the palette...

“Democracy is for the capitalists and their children’s children,” says activist Moekheti Khoda near the end of the documentary Black Lives...

The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), now in its 19th consecutive year, is a...

“Silence for me is when the audience starts to watch,” says filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, via email from the Sydney Film Festival. 

I think we can all agree that Captain America: Civil War is a kickass movie. It has balanced action, a huge...

The European Film Festival kicks off in South Africa on May 6 with 11 films from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands,...

There are moments in the beginning of The People versus the Rainbow Nation where you brace yourself for an up-to-date report from the...

The Ethiopian film industry is growing, though most feature films, especially those shot in the country’s working language Amharic, are based on...

First-time film director Thabang Moleya can pat himself on the back for helming a hit movie on debut: the romantic drama Happiness is a...