HIER.NA
A blended family suddenly forced to arrange a traditional Muslim burial have to confront their ideas about family, culture and religion and quickly realise that sometimes it takes a funeral to resurrect a family.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Quanita Adams Quanita Adams Showmax 2020
FINDING OPTEL
Claire Abrahams is a 16 year-old amateur detective who finds her quirky neighbourhood's lost things. When the community's beloved stray dog Optel goes missing, Claire is determined to find her. This search opens old wounds when Claire finds a link to the disappearance of her troubled brother, Jonah. Through bizarre encounters and quirky neighbours, the two cases intertwine. Claire must journey through grief and hope to find Optel and the truth behind her brother's disappearance.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Mikayla Brown Jesse Brown Showmax 2024
ADAM
Set in contemporary South Africa, we follow 18-year-old ADAM COETZEE, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his mother, CAROL, enrolls him in the Prinsloo Bush School.
Carol’s decision is influenced by her boyfriend, RIAN, who believes the school holds the key to fixing Adam’s problems.
Once at the Bush School, Adam quickly discovers that the school’s training methods, led by the rigid and militaristic DEREK, are unlike anything he’s ever experienced.
As the story unfolds, we witness Carol grappling with Rian’s increasing paranoia and need for control, and the escalating brutality of Derek’s actions towards Adam, creating a parallel narrative of confinement and emotional turmoil.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Winford Collings Liyema Speelman Showmax 2024
RITUALS OF RESISTANCE
Perhaps the film acknowledges that the deepest ritual we can do to sustain our resistance, and tend to our spirit is to return to the teachings of the land. Tend to the land. Oppieyaart is the manifestation of this ritual of care for ourselves by caring for the land and in turn reconnecting with our ancestors. growing our own medicines and food as they did.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Haneem Christian Haneem Christian 2024
#MOMFLUENCE
Zoe’s quest for parenthood takes a detour into the world of momfluencers when an accidental viral rant throws her into the highs and lows of becoming an online sensation.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Dominique Jossie &
Quanita Adams
BEING KARI
When love's betrayal shatters Kari's world on Valentine's Day, she's thrust into a journey of self-discovery. With her past knocking on the door, Kari must reconcile her fractured identity, torn between the sandy shores of Bloubergstrand and the familial embrace of Bo-Kaap.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Qarnita Loxton &
Quanita Adams
BULLETS AND PERMS
It is the mid-eighties in A SEGREGATED South Africa. A jilted hairdresser trades in her hairspray for an AK-47 to win back the man of her dreams and follows him to join the liberation movement. In the process, she discovers that there is much more to her than being a pretty poppie!
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
:Tracey-Lee Rainers
VIGIL ANTIES
When three Cape Flats Aunties accidentally rescue a stolen vehicle, they become overnight community vigilantes who
have to chase down many clues to clear their names, go undercover and ultimately shut down an abalone syndicate
running out of their nemesis’ pharmacy and impacting the entire community.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Loren Loubser
STRANGE LOVE
Perilously romantic Canadian, Vea, moves to Cape Town to win back an escaped ex’s heart and gets entangled in a
polyamorous web that transforms her ways of loving.
Written by Directed by Broadcaster Year
Kelly-Eve Koopman,
Loren Loubser &
Gabe Gabriel