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- DirectorFabian MedeaStarsMothusi MaganoFrank RautenbachChris ChameleonRacial tensions and corruption come to a head in a small, segregated town after the police find the body of a young Afrikaner girl in the bush.
- DirectorBonie SithebeStarsSibongokuhle NkosiMandisa VilakaziA young woman who comes from a conservative village must choose between living a lie to stay the perfect Zulu daughter, or risk her life for true love. Nosipho has a secret. She is a loving daughter held up as an example in her community, with a domineering father who has chosen a potential husband for her. But her soulmate and one true love is a woman.
- DirectorKatinka HeynsStarsShaleen Surtie-RichardsAndré RossouwLida BothaA coloured woman in South Africa finds a white baby on her doorstep and raises him as her own. Nine years later, he is discovered and taken away.
- DirectorBrett Michael InnesStarsZenobia KloppersLuca BornmanWayne SmithA coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsRichard HarrisJames Earl JonesVusi KuneneA South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
- DirectorGavin HoodStarsPresley ChweneyagaeMothusi MaganoIsrael Matseke-ZuluSix days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsLeleti KhumaloLihle MvelasePepi KhambuleAfter falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
- CreatorTolu AwosikaOlumide OdebunmiStarsCharmaine BingwaNkeki Obi-MelekweLeroy SiyafaSeries chronicles the unlikely rise to power of Zulu chief Shaka -- uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of Africa in the early 19th century to becoming a legendary figure in history.
- StarsThando ThabetheDippy PadiSaint SeseliProdigal daughter Tumi goes home for the holidays and manages to ruin her sister's wedding plans. Now she must make things right before it's too late.
- DirectorDonovan MarshStarsJohn CleeseTroye SivanJamie RoyalIt's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school.
- DirectorDonovan MarshStarsJohn CleeseTroye SivanSven RuygrokSpud faces the second year of boarding school whilst still waiting for his own body to mature as much as he has.
- DirectorJohn BarkerStarsTroye SivanSven RuygrokBlessing XabaAs Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. "I'm practically a man in most areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
- DirectorNeill BlomkampStarsSharlto CopleyDavid JamesJason CopeViolence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsRichard HarrisJames Earl JonesVusi KuneneA South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsWhoopi GoldbergLeleti KhumaloMiriam MakebaSouth African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.