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New SA Film to be Perfect Prelude to Week of Activism It is fitting that Çut-Out Girls opens the 22nd of November, a week before sixteen days of activism for no violence against women and children. This frighteningly relevant and unsettling film follows the lives of six women that become interwoven through the dark actions of two aspiring sportsmen. It is a disquieting film that ...

New Film Lifts the Veil on SA’s Sexual Shenanigans. In the local world of blessers, wealthy, middle-aged men lavish gifts and money on young women in return for companionship and more. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Sexy new comedy Blessers, a topical and very funny look at the naughty lifestyles of Mzansi’s elite, is directed by Rea Rangaka and executive produced by ...

Sparkling New Comedy Explores SA’s Blesser Culture on the Big Screen. Although the arrangement is nothing new, ‘blesser’ is a South African term for an older man who has multiple girlfriends he lavishes with gifts, in exchange for sex and companionship. In turn, the girlfriends post photos on social media of expensive shoes, clothes and piles of cash, tagging the pictures #blessed. That’s the subject ...

Bennie Fourie ‘n Ander mens in Nuwe Fliek. Een les wat die lewe graag vir ’n mens wil leer, is dat niks ooit so eenvoudig is as wat dit mag voorkom nie. ’n Feit wat bevestig word deur regisseur Quentin Krog se splinternuwe rolprent, Ander Mens, wat net soos die hoofkarakter glad nie volgens ’n standaard-formule beoordeel kan word nie. Die fliek word aangebied vanuit ...

ʼn Baie persoonlike biografiese rolprent gebaseer op die roman van Elsa Joubert Vervaardiger Helena Spring het aangekondig dat die nalatenskap fliek, Poppie Nongena op 30 Januarie 2020 in fliekteaters landswyd uitgereik sal word. Die fliek is gebaseer op die bekroonde boek “Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena” deur Elsa Joubert. Clementime Mosimane maak haar rolprentdebuut as Poppie. Die res van die rolverdeling sluit groot name in, ...

40 Year Anniversary returns in Cinematic Glory. Francis Ford Coppola’s exhilarating masterpiece of 1979, Apocalypse Now, returns to the big screen in all its cinematic glory with a striking brand-new 4K, Dolby Atmos©, Dolby Vision © version. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Oscar-winning Vietnam cult war epic this summer, Gravel Road Distribution Group will release a special, never-before-seen cut, restored with breath-taking realism ...

South African Release Nationwide this July. The contemporary psychological thriller from Academy Award-winning director Neil Jordan, Greta, will open in SA cinemas nationwide this Friday, 5 July 2019.  Co-written by Jordan and Ray Wright, it tells the story of Frances McCullen, played by Chloë Grace Moretz, a young woman struggling to fit into New York life. She has a job as a waitress in an ...

Edison vs Westinghouse on SA Big Screens! It’s hard to imagine how difficult it had to be for someone to invent all the things we now can’t live without, which is why the charged battle over rival electricity systems, fought between two brilliant visionaries, is so illuminating. Fuelled by the intense rivalry between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, The Current War tells the epic ...

The Kings of the Street welcomes you to the Neighbourhood. Post production has been completed on the new feature film Kings of Mulberry Street, written and directed by acclaimed director and producer Judy Naidoo. Set in the fictional town of Sugarhill District in the early 80s, the film was shot on location in Verulam and Tongaat in KwaZulu Natal, during the latter half of 2017. ...

Epic Story of Racheltjie de Beer Soon on our Big Screens. The most anticipated Afrikaans film of the year, The Story of Racheltjie de Beer, releases nationwide in October 2019. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by writer and filmmaker Brett Michael Innes, the film tells the fabled story of Afrikaans family, the De Beers, who are forced to find shelter on ...

Niks Beter as ‘n herlewing van ‘n Suksesvolle Classic se kind nie! The Film Factory en Nostalgia Productions is trots om aan te kondig dat ‘n nuwe filmaanpassing van Fiela se Kind, die topverkoper-roman deur Dalene Matthee, rolprentteaters regoor Suid-Afrika op 13 September 2019 sal tref. Met regie deur Brett Michael Innes, skrywer/regisseur van die 2017 SAFTA-wenner vir die film, Sink, is die film vervaardig deur Danie Bester in samewerking met kykNET Films, Filmfinity (Pty) Ltd en die Departement ...

The Story Bram Fischer’s Fight to Save Nelson Mandela now on the Silver Screen. Nelson Mandela is a global icon of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But this might not have been if it were not for the heroic fight to save Mandela’s life by a legal team led by an Afrikaner revolutionary, Bram Fischer. This is the story of how Mandela was saved from ...

New SA Feature shines light on Depression. Depression is an illness like any other; there’s no shame in seeking help. That’s the message of a new film that treats mental illness with warmth, respect and integrity. Mental illness, and the stigma surrounding it, is a critical issue. It’s the central theme of Skemerson, the new film directed by Phillip Rademeyer and written by Pietie Beyers, ...

Sexy, and Slick RomCom, to open on 5 April. A new breed of South African film is about to hit our screens. Thando Thabethe and Lungile Radu team up in Love Lives Here, a movie about love, loyalty, friendship and family. The star-studded cast also includes Zola Nombona, Andile Gumbi, Motlatsi Mafatshe, Nomalanga Shozi and Nkanyiso Bhengu. Filmed in KwaZulu-Natal and directed by Norman Maake, ...

The Latest in a Winning Line of Gay Themed Films Queer cinema has steadily grown to become one of the leading forces in film internationally over the last five years. And South Africa is no different. Etienne Kallos’s film Die Stropers, which won critical acclaim at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, opens nationwide on 15 March and is the latest in a series of award-winning ...

Nuwe Olwagen film word vrygestel na die sukses van Kanarie! Christiaan Olwagen se derde vollengte film, Die seemeeu, word op 5 April by fliekteaters landswyd vrygestel. Van dieselfde kreatiewe span, met ‘n geselskap van teater-reuse, en die weghol sukses van Kanarie in 2018, beloof Die seemeeu om nie teleur te stel nie. Olwagen neem dié klassieke teaterstuk deur Anton Tsjechof en verplaas dit na Suid-Afrika ...

Indian Movie Star Arrives in South Africa for local Movie premiere. Bollywood actress, Lillete Dubey, best known for her roles in captivating movies like Best Marigold Hotel, The Second-Best Marigold Hotel, Karl Ho Naa Ho and Monsoon Wedding will arrived in South Africa earlier this week to attend the official Durban premiere of the much anticipated dramedy, 3 Days To Go… Dubey mentions that she ...

Frank Opperman gets serious again in a Role of a Modern Priest in Society. The decline in church attendance is a global phenomenon. The role of the priest in our rapidly changing world is one of the themes that lies at the heart of Dominee Tienie, a new film starring acclaimed actor Frank Opperman, who reprises on the big screen, the role he played on stage in ...

Action-adventure epic retells story of legendary South African Outlaw! One man’s bandit is another man’s champion. That is the theme at the heart of Sew the Winter to My Skin, a new film by South African director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka.  The film is a searing reimagining of the story of John Kepe, a legendary outlaw of pre-apartheid South Africa.. Hailed as a Western-style manhunt thriller, ...

Kompanjie Stories se Eerste Vol Fliek maak Liefde op Valentynsdag. Liewe Lisa, die debuutfilm van Kompanjie Stories, se lokprent is nou aanlyn te sien. Die film word vrygestel op 14 Februarie 2019 en kykers sal Hendrik Cronje en Elani Dekker in die hoofrolle sien. Die film Liewe Lisa is nie net die filmmakers se eerste produksie nie, maar het ook as inspirasie gedien vir die begin van ‘n nuwe produksiemaatskappy, naamlik Kompanjie Stories, met ...

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South African Paranormal thriller Coming to the Big Screen Supernatural thriller The Tokoloshe, directed by Jerome Pikwane and starting Petronella Tshuma, was screened at the first ever Comic Con Africa, at the Kyalami Convention Centre, which was hosted between the 14th and 16th of September. The three-day event showcased comic books, science fiction and fantasy films, as well as television and all things supernatural. The South ...

New Funny Drama fresh from the DIFF Circuit! The all new comedy drama, Baby Mamas, is coming soon to SA Cinemas, after it featured at the Durban International Film Festival. Set in Johannesburg, Baby Mamas revolves around the daily lives, loves and drama of four professional women who are all in different stages of their own real-life baby mama drama. Sharing similar experiences, a sisterhood ...

Long-awaited film about Desmond Tutu finally on the big screen! While it has been two decades since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded, bringing to a close South Africa’s cathartic period of reckoning with its violent history of racial segregation, director Roland Joffé’s new film returns to that time to grapple with the terrible truths of apartheid and its legacy. Based on Michael Ashton’s play The Archbishop ...

New Big Screen Feature where Family Comes First. No matter how long it has been since you last saw your relatives, meeting up at family gatherings, especially funerals, can lead to drama and then some. This typical, and often very emotional scenario, is also the inspiration behind award-winning producer Bianca Isaac’s directorial debut, 3 Days to Go, which puts family relationships in the spotlight! The movie ...

Dalene Matthee Roman kry lewe op Film.  Die bekende roman, Toorbos, uit die pen van bekroonde skrywer, Dalene Matthee, gaan binnekort lewe kry op die silwerskerm met gesoute vervaardiger, André Scholtz, aan die stuur van dié besonderse rolprent. Hierdie romantiese drama is gebaseer op die 2003-topverkoper met dieselfde naam, wat deel uitmaak van die oorlede skrywer se arsenaal van suksesvolle bosverhale. Dit vertel die storie van Karoliena ...

Nog niet die Laaste van Schuster! Hou vas aan jou sitplek want die grapjas, Leon Schuster, is terug met ’n splinternuwe goedvoel-komedie, met skreeusnaakse insidente en ’n inspirerende storielyn, wat kykers vasgenael sal hou van begin tot einde. In ware Schuster-tradisie, volg Frank & Fearless die wenresep van pittige komedie en humoristiese sosiale kommentaar waarvoor Leon se vorige werk, soos There’s a Zulu on my Stoep en Mr. Bones, bekendheid verwerf ...