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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play an engaged couple on shaky ground in ‘The Drama’.

‘The Drama’: A dark comedy about thought, guilt, and perception

A pre-wedding confession spirals into paranoia and hilarity, as The Drama probes how our hidden thoughts reshape love, trust, and identity.

It’s a wrap for Team Jemini, one of 34 teams of local filmmakers who will showcase their creativity on the big screen.
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Creativity in the fast lane with 48HFP

Joburg creatives bring films from scratch to screen in just 48 hours

Reely cool: Busi Lethole is the principal protagonist in Epilogue, a film made in just two days as part of the 48 Hour Film Project, which takes place in more than 100 cities around the globe every year.

What did you do this weekend?

I played the lead in a film that took just 48 hours to make as part of an international competition.

The official poster for Vundla’s Hotel On The Koppies (Supplied).
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Generations of storytelling: Charlie Vundla on his most personal film

The director talks about his third film, ‘Hotel On the Koppies’, making indie movies and finding outlets on streaming services

Transplanted: Steven Yeun (centre) plays Jacob, the husband in family drama Minari, which can be streamed on Showmax. Photo: (A24)

Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South

In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks

Freedom fighter: Dulcie September was shot dead outside the ANC offices in Paris in 1988. Her killer has never been identified.

The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

The film was released worldwide on 16 December 2016, and became the highest grossing Nigerian film;[4][5] a record which was broken in 2017 by its sequel The Wedding Party 2. (Image courtesy of The Wedding Party)

How professionalism, and new business models, are nurturing Nollywood

Nollywood’s production values have undergone tremendous change over the past decade, but is the effect sustainable?

Colourful exploration: In Power to the Purple, Khulekani Mayisa aims to marry the two art forms she loves: writing and film. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Khulekani Mayisa: Poetry in the polemic

Khulekani Mayisa’s new film, Power to the Purple, is an intensely personal collaborative project

Sifiso Khanyile (Supplied)

The List: Five films on the transition, selected by Sifiso Khanyile

Sifiso Khanyile, the maker of Uprize! and A New Country, selects five documentaries that influenced his latest film

Perseverance: Ramadan Suleman spent 10 years working on his documentary, By All Means Necessary.  (Paul Botes/M&G)

The Portfolio: Ramadan Suleman

Ramadan Suleman’s documentary, ‘By All Means Necessary’ honours the struggle against colonialism. It will be showing at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival from August 20

Tim Greene (left) pictured on the set of TV series iNumber Number (Ter Hollmann)

The List: Five low-budget films selected by Tim Greene

Cabin Fever writer and director Tim Greene, whose filmography includes crowd-funded movie A Boy Called Twist (2004) and Skeem (2011), runs down some of his favourite low-budget…

SA filmmaker Ramadan Suleman receives a French order

Recognition for filmmaker Ramadan Suleman is from conversations created around his films, not the numbers at the box office, writes Katlego Mkhwanazi.

‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ has been hailed for its positive portrayal of LGBT characters.

LGBT star roles dim in Hollywood

A study has shown that only a fraction of the major studio films last year featured gay characters, most of whom were painted in a bad light.

Zandile Tisani directed ‘Heroes’ for the Africa by Women project.

SA’s female filmmakers make the cut

The Africa by Women project has resulted in 10 short films that deal with different facets of life in the country 20 years after democracy.

Clive Stillerman

‘Empire of dirt’: You can have it all

Through his father Clive, Ben Stillerman delves into the relationship between the efforts we put into our work and our private lives.

Goodbye to the A-list?

Goodbye to the A-list?

As big-name actors prove a box-office turn-off, now may be the time for mainstream Hollywood stars to take a hike, writes <b>Peter Bradshaw</b>.

Million-dollar film studio to put SA on movie map

Construction recently started on Africa’s first state-of-the-art film studio near Cape Town, which once completed will be worthy of Hollywood status.

Wayne Wang feature film premieres on YouTube

Is there room among the pratfalls and bedroom tirades of YouTube for an experimental, full-length film?

Shooting stars in the Karoo

Zinaid Meeran attended a crash course on the status of the national identity at the Apollo Film Festival in Victoria West.

A curious film about the end of the world

Michel Houellebecq’s debut film was panned after its first screening this week. The French enfant terrible talks to Geoffrey Macnab.