This year’s festival begins and ends with powerful local films confronting apartheid, colonialism and memory through confident, world-class craft

As the Joburg Film Festival returns in 2026, curator Nhlanhla Ndaba explains why craft, care and unseen labour are taking centre stage

Thapelo Motloung breaks down building a filmmaking ecosystem in Soweto through SIFF and Soweto Film Marke

There is an urgent need for investment in diverse, homegrown narratives as African cinema struggles for authentic representation at global festivals, often tokenised

Movie theatres are empty but South African stories are abundant — what’s the disconnect?

From art exhibitions to film festivals, we’ve got your entertainment covered this weekend to the next

Cineasts of the coast are about to be blessed with a line-up of exceptional cinema.

The inaugural Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival, which took place in Cape Town, aims to challenge traditional form of film.

This year’s iMPAC festival includes three one-hour short-film selections of work by founder Pluto Panoussis’s students. The M&G caught up with him.

The South African film "Fanie Fourie’s Lobola" has won an award at the largest film festival in the United States, it has been reported.

Celebrities will grace the Lido’s red carpet this week but the magic of the world’s oldest film festival is fading.

Agnes Poirier looks at Laurent Cantet’s film <i>Entre les Murs </i>, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Festival.

Back after 19 years, the new Indiana Jones film premiered at Cannes. Charlotte Higgins reports from the festival.

Percy Zvumoya looks at the upcoming film festival Africa on Screen, which will coincide with this year’s Africa Day celebrations.

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> The Croatian Film Festival, <i>How She Move</i>, <i>Mad Money</i> and <i>Street Kings</i>, starring Forrest Whitaker.