Mary Twala

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.

En las montañas de Lesotho, una viuda de 80 años llamada Mantoa espera impaciente el regreso de su hijo, después de haber trabajado éste durante un tiempo en las minas del Sudáfrica. Pero lo que descubre es que su hijo ha fallecido. Terriblemente dolida por la noticia y habiendo perdido al único miembro que le quedaba de su familia, decide arreglar todos los papeles y las cuentas pendientes para ser enterrada en el cementerio local. Sus planes se complican cuando descubre que los oficiales de la provincia han decidido reubicar el pueblo para inundar el área, con el fin de construir una presa. Mantoa, sin embargo, opta por defender el legado espiritual de su comunidad.

In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.

En un mundo extrañamente parecido al nuestro un cowboy de nombre Roland Deschain de Gilead persigue a su eterno enemigo, "el hombre de negro". Roland, solitario, quizá maldito, anda sin descanso a través de un paisaje triste y abandonado. Conoce a Jake, un chico de Nueva York pero venido de otro tiempo, y ambos unen sus destinos. Ante ellos están las montañas. Y mucho más allá, la Torre Oscura... Adaptación de la saga literaria de Stephen King.

"Wonder Boy for President," tells a story of a charismatic young man from the Eastern Cape who is coerced into running for president by two corrupt characters. It is a political satire that delves into political dynamics and challenges that arise.

Comedia romántica basada en la novela homónima de François Lelord que narra la historia de un psiquiatra que recorrerá medio mundo en busca del secreto de la felicidad. Los protagonistas de la película serán interpretados por Simon Pegg ('Star Trek: En la Oscuridad') y Rosemund Pike ('Muere otro día').

Una aspirante a actriz británica, Jodi Rutherford, persuade Kobus Willemse, un agricultor de Brandfort, para realizar un papel en una película importante como una heroína de la guerra africana. A cambio Jodi se compromete a organizar y dirigir el concierto anual en la granja Willemse.

En junio de 1994, Nicholas Barclay, un niño tejano de 13 años, desapareció sin dejar rastro. Tres años después, se reciben noticias sorprendentes sobre el caso: el chico ha sido hallado en España y afirma que ha sido torturado por sus secuestradores. Tras la inicial alegría de la familia al recuperarlo, se plantea un problema inexplicable: ¿cómo es posible que el hijo rubio de los Barclay sea ahora moreno?

A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp.

Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa), a young black street kid who clings to memories of his family, come together to take on the society that has cast them aside and eventually build a friendship for the ages.

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely