2010 Films

  • Body and Soul (57min), France/Mozambique
    Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities, living in the suburbs of Maputo, Mozambiques capital city.

    Victoria transmits the self-esteem she received from her education to other physically disabled women by organizing a fashion show; Mariana uses her social energy to create helpful friendships and overcome the urban architectonical barriers and Vasco does business, repairing shoes in the informal sector.

  • Chumo (45min), Tanzania

     

    Juma is a poor fisherman who loves telling tales. Amina is the girl who loves to hear his stories. They long to be together, but Amina's father, Ali, wants a better life for her. Ali finds this in Yustus, a rich, but self-serving young suitor. Juma must put everything on the line to save their love and, in order to succeed,he will sacrifice more than he bargained for.

     

  • Cries at Night (14min), Namibia

     

  • Forgotten Gold (70min), DRC

    Forgotten Gold tells the story of one of Africa's legendary footballers, Ndaye Mulamba, who secured his fame by scoring 9 goals during the 1974 African Cup of Nations tournament, for the Leopards team from the country then known as Zaire.

    Ndaye was forced to flee Zaire (DRC today) in 1996, leaving family, friends and all he owned, and seek refuge in South Africa, where he has painfully made a life for himself. 

    A man who, at the time was working as a car guard in Cape Town, put Africa on the map with his unbroken record of 9 goals in Egypt.

  • The Cradock Murders (52min), Germany

    Late on the winter night of 27 June 1985, South Africa's Security Forces set up a roadblock
    near Port Elizabeth in the eastern Cape Province. Four anti-Apartheid activists, including
    their leader, Matthew Goniwe, a popular teacher from the small town of Cradock, were in the
    ambushed car. They had been secretly targeted for political assassination. The film allows the viewer to perceive the oppressive climate of the sombre racist regime in the seventies and early eighties. The assassinations signalled the 'Beginning of the End' of this racist Apartheid regime, and

  • 12 + 1 (30min), Iran
  • 55 Bucks (USA/TZ)

    The film follows a small group of Tanzanian women who leave their remote villages to road trip together on safari. These women have never been further than a few miles from their homes, let alone seen an elephant or a giraffe... but now things are different. Their lives have been forever changed from a simple micro loan. All the song and spirit on the bus prove that this is more than a much needed (and unheard of) girls day out, it's also a triumph of the spirit.

  • 8 Women

    Eight Tanzanian women describe their experience and definitions of violence. The women's narratives form a composit portrait of an everywoman and provocatively illustrate the complexity of sexual and gender-based violence in Tanzania.

  • A Beautiful Snowy Day (32min), Iran

    A critical day in the life of a woman and her child, in which she is forced make a choice that no mother would not want to be confronted with.

  • A Country For My Daughter (SA)

    In what seems to be a hard and unwinnable battle against sexual violence in South Africa a few victories offer hope. Human rights activist and mother, Nonkosi Khumalo, revisits the stories, places, and where possible, the women to discover how personal experiences of horrific trauma have transformed how the law against rape is prosecuted. She finds that only public outrage and organised protest have forced the authorities to provide women the protection and justice to which they are entitled.