Saartjie Botha

Películas

Poppie Nongena: Una Mujer Contra un País
Screenplay
Película basada en la novela de Elsa Joubert "El largo viaje de Poppie Nongena", considerada como una de las mejores novelas africanas del siglo XX.
Die Seemeeu
Screenplay
Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
Lien se Lankstaanskoene
Writer
This coming-of-age drama tells about a high school girl who resorts to begging to support her family. Lien Jooste’s life falls apart when her father is arrested for fraud and her mother develops a drinking problem. They lose everything and go from being an upstanding, affluent family living in a nice neighbourhood to a broken mess – living in a small flat and struggling to get by. Due to her mother’s drinking, Lien has to take on the role of mother for both her mom and her younger brother Braam.
Krismis van Map Jacobs
Producer
A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of the uprooted, their love and pain and the desperate longing for a better existence in a system that especially fails the defenseless.
Balbesit
Writer
A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.