This year’s festival begins and ends with powerful local films confronting apartheid, colonialism and memory through confident, world-class craft
As the Joburg Film Festival returns in 2026, curator Nhlanhla Ndaba explains why craft, care and unseen labour are taking centre stage
Thapelo Motloung breaks down building a filmmaking ecosystem in Soweto through SIFF and Soweto Film Marke
There is an urgent need for investment in diverse, homegrown narratives as African cinema struggles for authentic representation at global festivals, often tokenised
Movie theatres are empty but South African stories are abundant — what’s the disconnect?
