Cape Town, 1986. During a nationwide state of emergency, a black township princess must babysit two children from a wealthy white family. When a powerful, malevolent force outside the home threatens them, she is faced with the truth about what really stalks the children in her care... 

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Colour | English with some isiXhosa | Supernatural Political Drama | 

 

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Cast: Thishiwe Ziqubu, Susanne Wuest, Clayton Evertson, et al. 
Cinematography: tbc
Sound Design: tbc
Production Design: tbc
Editing: tbc

PESP Fund Award Winner
Binger Filmlab
NFVF Development Funding 
DIFF Filmmart 
IFP ENTRANT
​World Cinema Fund Award 

It is 2020. The world is in lockdown. An email arrives. Someone claims to be my brother. So begins a journey – a digital journey confined to the world of Zoom video calling – that uncovers a past shared separately, equal pain, shared joys... and a burgeoning brotherly love that spans decades and the trauma of a wounded country. 

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Colour | HDV | 65"

London, 1990. Ten-year-old British Sri-Lankan Ruby Dassanayake must spend the summer in her mother’s workplace, a four-star hotel, pulling her into the shady world of hospitality and pushing her intense relationship with her mother to the limit…

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Colour | English | Coming-of-Age Drama

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Producers: Sophie Mathison, Samm Haillay

 

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Participating Project - Attagirl Global 2

Berlin, 1941. Emilie Schenkl, an Austrian stenographer, begins a love affair with Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose, in Berlin to collaborate with the Third Reich to free India. Can their love flourish against the backdrop of WWII? Based on a true story. 

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Colour | German | Drama/Romance

Director: Kanwal Sethi
Co-writers: Kanwal Sethi, Ziska Riemann

Script Fund MDM