This local South African movie is a simple story and focuses on a period of time in history which has been neglected in terms of good quality movies. This war was perhaps South Africa's "Vietnam."It shows the distinct scenery of that part of South Africa beautifully and the strong religious beliefs of the Afrikaans Farming Community who live and work there.
Brett Michael Innes was a little boy when the film version of Dalene Matthees novel ‘Fiela se Kind’ was first screened (the film was also shown at a special screening at the Tallinn Cinema House twenty years ago). Brett read the novel and watched the film only in secondary school and it left him an extraordinary and personal impression which he has carried with him for long ye...
1990年,一艘巨大的飞船出现在地球上空,人们惶恐不安,却又分外好奇。经过一段时间紧张的等待,外星飞船始终没有动静。人类终于小心翼翼靠近它,强行走进舱内,结果发现了不计其数的外星人。他们形容丑陋,宛如虾子,而且健康状况极差,虚弱无力。原来这是一群来自外星的难民,他们最终被地球人接纳,并隔离在南非约翰内斯堡的一片区域内生活,此地名为“第九区”。经过长达20年的繁衍,外星难民的数量扩张至180万之多,且和周边人类的矛盾冲突不断,越来越多的人类呼吁将“大虾”赶出地球。
MNU(列国同盟组织)经过磋商,决定将外星难民迁移到更为偏远的区域。MNU外星事务部门的特工威库斯(Sharlto Copley 饰)专门负责搬迁工作。威库斯在动员过程中傲慢随意,与当地居民冲突频频。最终,他为自己的行为付出代价,外星人的神秘流体将其感染,威库斯慢慢变成了外星人的模样……
上世纪九十年代,南非约翰内斯堡的Hillbrow区。拉奇·库内内(瑞普拉纳·赛斐默 Rapulana Seiphemo饰),一位来自南非身无分文的街头混混。出身于贫民窟的拉奇从小就目睹着南非人民遭受的苦难,便立志要逃离这样的窘困之境,改变这一切。于是他从街头的小偷小摸开始起家,在经历了无数的枪战、血腥和暴力之后,成长为约翰内斯堡地区的黑帮老大。然而此时的拉奇正一步步走向罪恶的深渊,他所创建的帝国、他所拥有的生活,终将倒塌。
由南非导演拉尔夫·齐曼执导的暴力犯罪影片《耶路撒冷》根据真人真事改编。本片于2008年在柏林电影节上首映,取得了观众和影评人的高度评价,并获得了很高的票房成绩。
Based on the Jan van Tonder novel with the same title. It tells the story of a 1966 railway community, told through the eyes of an eleven year old boy, called Timus. Timus and his family are trapped within the structural violence caused by the government and the church at the time. An unlikely hero, Joon, often appears to save Timus and these acts of kindness is seen by Timus a...
Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.