John Kani Movies

According to the legend of the Shangaan, white lions are the messengers of the gods, but it has been years since one has been seen in their remote...

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of...

When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of...

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced...

When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness...

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors...

Set in Zululand South Africa three Zulu men must re-awaken sleeping demons when Mpiyakhe, now a successful Johannesburg businessman, returns home....

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

It's a jungle out there. That's how we meet our lead character Jack. It's been five years since he's seen his partner and best friend Twala. Jack did...

True story of a man who believes God owns the earth and land cannot be owned by anyone, therefore he's at liberty to build his church on ground...

Marigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political...

An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.

An American couple moves to Johannesburg after Nelson Mandela is elected president.

As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’...

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.

Beyond the Light Barrier is the autobiographical true story of Elizabeth Klarer, a South African woman, and Akon, an astrophysicist from Meton, a...

Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era

A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life...