Family has an impact on each of us. For Jessica, her family life has been difficult. Jessica’s search for identity leads her to discover that she needs to let go of pain and heal herself before she can heal her family. …
Special Feature: Encounters Youth Experience
Waves
This film sensitively captures the lives of these girls as they move between the city streets and the ocean. …
Bromwell Street
Bromwell Street tells a human story of people feeling as though they’ve been thrown away by the current regime and left to fend for themselves. …
Cape Town’s Beach Calligraher
Cape Town’s Beach Calligrapher creates visual poetry as we learn about calligrapher and letter artist, Andrew van der Merwe and his art while we watch him create his beach calligraphy. …
Changing lives through dance
Dancing has changed the lives of many, including Crystal Engelbrecht. …
Still I Stand
This touching short follows Andrew as he describes his life after the death of his wife …
Friends of the Liesbeek
Friends of the Liesbeek is an initiative, started 25 years ago, that combats litter and waste water pollution in the Liesbeek river. …
Hustler
The carefully observed short film introduces us to Mampuse and Ben, who spend their days collecting and selling recyclable materials to provide for themselves and their families. …
Still a Man
This touching short explores albinism within Xhosa culture and the conflicting nature of living with albinism and going through initiation. Thulani discovers it is rather his actions that prove he is still a man. …
Street Survival
Street Survival, follows Tumisang Kokorwe as he spends 24 hours as a homeless person …
Fall into the Sky
Black women narrate their experiences of race, colourism, Afrophobia and Xenophobia in this powerful short documentary. …
Scenes from a Dry City
This beautifully crafted film looks at the recent Cape Town water crisis from a host of different perspectives. …