Interviews

Review This is the final weekend of the Encounters International Documentary Film Festival. This year marked the first time in more than a decade that the festival — which usually takes place in Cape Town and Johannesburg — also hosted screenings in Pretoria, with the...

Review "True happiness is not something you can plan." With these words, Lienkie realises that her idea of "home" is not sustainable, and that she needs to open her eyes wider if she wants to recognise unconditional love. Lienkie (Carine Rous) has cherished only one...

Review "On 18 July 1941, Petrus Jakobus Beukes, together with twelve other men, walks for the first time out of Kharkams's winding dirt roads, heading south." These words are co-director Jason Jacobs's introduction to Variations on a Theme — his version of "once upon...

Review The film’s titular main character, Jessica Brok, was previously part of an elite, secret military unit that carried out high-risk extraction and neutralisation missions across Africa. But after her last mission in Angola a few years ago went badly wrong, and...