Born in Boksburg in 1921, Jacobus Johannes ‘Jamie’ Uys became an internationally acclaimed director with 24 films to his credit. His features and documentaries included Funny People, Animals are Beautiful People and, of course, The Gods Must Be Crazy. He died in Johannesburg in 1996. This mini-drama was produced by the Apartheid State. Narrated in
The Furiosus explores the tortured story of Dimitri Tsafendas, assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd. Declared by a judge to be a madman—‘a Furiosus’ in Roman law—Tsafendas spent 28 years on death row. Produced as if giving evidence before the TRC, the director becomes the attorney in the trial that never was, arguing that Tsafendas had raged
Our synopsis in 2001: Debuted as a work in progress at Encounters 1999, we are pleased to screen the completed multi-award-winning feature. The San are widely acknowledged to be the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, with an unbroken link to their ancestors who have lived in the same region for over 30,000 years. The film
The tale of Sara Baartman should be known to every South African. For it is a story that distils the audacity of European racism and is an accessible and moving account of her life. Sara was a Khoi-Khoi woman, born in the Cape in 1790, who at the age of 20 was taken to London
The Long Journey of Clement Zulu is a powerful documentary following the release of three men from Robben Island, revealing their transformative experiences in a changing South Africa. It pays tribute to overlooked heroes and challenges media stereotypes of political prisoners.
Thomas Imbach is a filmmaker whose passion for innovation pushes his films to the edge of comfortable viewing. Searching for a filmic language capable of giving adequate expression to our daily lives, he attempts to reinvent film with every new release. Born in 1961 in Lucerne, Switzerland, Imbach studied history and philosophy before beginning a
A documentary about the lives of italian workers in the after-WW2 Switzerland.
At last! An intelligent and more-than-creative documentary on life behind large banking corporations. Imbach gets to the heartbeat of what it means to work in a high-tech, high-powered industry with this devastatingly articulate and innovative work. Well Done cuts directly to the subtext of working life: as the tirade of statistics, numbers, deadlines are punctuated