| Written by AFP Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:01 | | | Standing ovation for South African Film at Cannes Festival |  A gut-wrenching South African movie honing in on a gamut of women's issues including AIDS, as seen through the eyes of a South African child, overwhelmed Cannes at its world release on Tuesday. 'Life, Above All' by award-winning South African director Oliver Schmitz, was the third movie from the world's poorest continent to wow the crowds at the film world's biggest annual event, winning a 10-minute standing ovation. "It isn't an AIDS movie," Schmitz told AFP. "It's a very moving drama about a m.......... | | |
| Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:09 | | | SA short film wins at Tribeca Festival in Manhattan |  A South African short film, 'Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here', has won the award for Best Narrative Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan.
The film, directed by Bhekumuzi Sibiya and written by Bongi Ndaba and Sibongile Nkosana, tells the story of a young girl with low self-esteem who writes a letter to Father Christmas asking for long, straigh hair.
Her dream is almost ruined by a man who tells her Father Christmas doesn't exist, and she resorts to extremes to achieve her goal. | | | Monday, 12 April 2010 16:47 | | | South Africa Triomf movie releases in the UK | | 
The award-winning South African film Triomf (Best South African Film – Durban International Film Festival 2008) will have its first international theatrical release on 14 May in the UK. Produced and directed by Michael Raeburn, Triomf is believed to be the first Afrikaans language film to find international theatrical distribution.
Triomf is to be distributed by the prestigious art house group Picture Houses. The première will be at the National Film Theatre, South Bank, London on 12 May, where the movie opens a “New South Africa Cinema” season. | | | Wednesday, 26 August 2009 07:37 | | | The Mysteries - Yiimimangaliso: Thrilling South African theatre in London | | Saturday, 15 August 2009 12:24 | | | South African sci-fi film buzzing Hollywood |  South African director Neill Blomkamp's science-fiction thriller "District 9," film about aliens segregated in a Johannesburg township has got hollywoood buzzing with excitement.
The movie - about the struggles of insect-like extra-terrestrial refugees as they try to settle on Earth amongst hostile humans -- has garnered glowing reviews ahead of its North American release on August 14.
Produced by Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, Blomkamp's film arose from the ashes of plans to adapt smash hit video-game "Halo" for the big screen.
Yet while the film's setting is a futuristic parallel universe, the story is unmistakably rooted in South Africa's recent bloody history of apartheid and anti-immigrant social unrest. | | | |
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