Bongile Mantsai

Películas

You're My Favourite Place
Nelisa Vena’s life has never been the same since the death of her sister Anathi. On the last day of their high school careers, she and three friends from a township in East London, South Africa, embark on a life-defining road trip by stealing a taxi and heading to the remote landmark of Hole in the Wall, where Xhosa legend has it you can talk to the dead.
Knuckle City
Dudu Nyakama
An aging, womanizing professional boxer and his career-criminal brother take one last shot at success and get more than they've bargained for.
Sew the Winter to My Skin
Fearless the Rabble Rouser
Set in South Africa's rural Great-Karoo region in the 1950s, this epic existential-adventure film chronicles the exploits of the outlaw John Kepe and the various individuals his escapades affected. This Robin-Hoodesque figure would steal primarily livestock from the white settler farmers, terrorizing them for over a decade. Led by the hardliner General Botha, a mammoth manhunt ensues in the very mountain where Kepe was rumored to occupy a Noah's Ark like cave. This spectacle ingratiated Kepe in the hearts of the marginalized indigenous-population, who turn Kepe's miscreant deeds into the stuff of legend, making him a threat to the very fabric of the colonial society. Sew the Winter to my Skin is a thrilling, operatic ride into the heart of Pre-Apartheid South Africa and is a visceral exploration of the effects of the colonial displacement that sewed the seeds for one of the most viciously racist, political regimes in history.
La herida
Vija
Como cada año, Xolani, obrero solitario, participa junto a otros hombres de su comunidad en un rito iniciático tradicional para jóvenes que están en los últimos años de la adolescencia: serán circuncidados y luego “preparados” para la vida de un hombre de verdad. Kwanda, procedente de una familia acomodada de Johannesburgo y tutelado por Xolani, recibe las burlas de sus compañeros por ser de ciudad y demasiado sensible. Cuando Kwanda descubre que Xolani está enamorado en secreto de otro de los cuidadores la vida de los tres cambiará radicalmente.