Fana Mokoena

信じられるのは、己のみ。南アフリカ・ケープタウンで密輸ギャングの縄張り争いが勃発。実直な警官は強大な犯罪組織の親玉に利用され、悪事の片棒を担ぐことに。

人種隔離政策アパルトヘイトによって、白人たちが優位に立ち、黒人たちが迫害されていた、南アフリカ共和国。弁護士として働いていたネルソン・マンデラは、そんな差別や偏見が当然のように存在している状況に疑問と怒りを感じられずにはいられなかった。その思いを強くするあまり、彼は反アパルトヘイトを訴えた政治活動に身を投じていくが、それと同時に当局から目を付けられるように。活動は熱を帯び、ついには国家反逆罪で逮捕され、終身刑という重い判決を下されてしまう。

フィラデルフィアに住む元国連職員ジェリー・レインは、妻と長女レイチェルと次女コニーを学校に送るため自動車に乗っていたが、いつもとは様子の違う交通渋滞にはまってしまう。人間を狂暴化させる謎の疫病が世界各地で流行し始めており、フィラデルフィアの街はゾンビの大群に襲われていた。ジェリーは街を離れるが、携帯電話へ国連事務次長ティエリーから連絡が入り、現場への復帰を要請される。

Ade and Femi are expatriate Nigerian brothers. Ade is a successful banker in London, while Femi, once a political dissident in his home country, has had to escape to South Africa, live in refugee tenements and work menial jobs. The brothers have not only been physically estranged, their relationship is riddled with unspoken betrayal, guilt and scorn, which they have carried since the early days of their youth. During a short visit to Johannesburg, Ade discovers that his brother has been missing for a week. He sets out to investigate Femi's mysterious disappearance, reconstructing the pieces of his everyday life and the cruel hardships he endured just to survive. A riot erupts while Ade is visiting Femi's former boss in one of the townships. Ade is forced to take shelter with the employer. The mounting violence outside seeps into their exchanges and, eventually, prompts an explosion of revelation.

When the wife of a successful black businessman with roots in the struggle against apartheid is murdered by a young stranger who knows his name, he has to go back into his own past to find the answers that will lead him to the killer. But when he finds him and the reasons for the murder, will vengeance still be possible?

1994年、ルワンダの首都キガリ。高級ホテル「ミル・コリン・ホテル」で働く支配人のポールは毎日順調に仕事をこなしていたが、ある晩、ホテルからの帰宅途中に街で火の手が上がっているのを発見する。＜アフリカのルワンダで内紛による大量虐殺の危機から人々を救った、実在のホテルマンの勇気と良心を描いたドラマ。主演はドン・チードル。テリー・ジョージが脚本、監督、製作を手がけ、1200人もの命を守り抜く男の勇姿をヒロイックに描き出す。日本公開は危ぶまれていたが、若者によるインターネットでの署名運動で公開が実現した。＞

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.

This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.