
Imran Hamdulay starts shooting Pieces with Kim Engelbrecht and Keenan Arrison
Kim Engelbrecht and Keenan Arrison lead Imran Hamdulay's family drama Pieces, the first of five NFVF micro-budget films, now shooting in Cape Town.
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Kim Engelbrecht and Keenan Arrison lead Imran Hamdulay's family drama Pieces, the first of five NFVF micro-budget films, now shooting in Cape Town.

Rapper Maglera Doe Boy makes his acting debut in Mzansi, a two-part short film with 25K and Young Stunna, shot in Johannesburg and Mozambique.

The Ramaphakela sequel debuted at No 2 in South Africa and Kenya, behind only Animals, and at No 6 in Nigeria after its first three days on Netflix.

Durban FilmMart and CTIAF ran two African Animation Days focused on audiences, studio finance and the missing middle between grants and growth capital.

Tuva Björk’s short documentary follows private-security patrols through Johannesburg and asks who gets to feel safe in a deeply unequal city.

The NFVF selected the Afrikaans Namaqualand drama Variations on a Theme as SA’s official Best International Feature submission — a submission, not a nomination.

South African conservation documentary Spoiled has won the Terres de l'Ebre Award for Best Film Promoting Sustainability at the Terres Travel Festival.

Tashin Singh's KwaZulu-Natal short Sugarcane, Burning has reached Canada's International South Asian Film Festival after stops in Pune and London, with Cape Town's FAME Shorts still ahead.

Jonathan Boynton-Lee and Trevor Gumbi lead Cop and a Half, a Johannesburg buddy-cop action comedy streaming on eVOD from 24 September.

Netflix has released the official trailer for Seriously Single Too, reuniting Dineo and Noni for a Cape Town bachelorette trip that puts their friendship under pressure.

Lawrence Maleka has made his TIFF debut with Future Tense, the South African-Australian sci-fi drama in which he stars and is an executive producer.