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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Request Viewing of Short Film White by Night (International Competition, Interfilm Berlin, 2024)

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 

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Two South African brothers (one Jewish, one black) find each other, discovering a hidden past of separate but shared pain – and a growing fraternal bond.

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Colour | HDV | 58"

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Returning to the hotel where she spent childhood summers, a newly bereaved Sri-Lankan British artist retrieves a hidden artefact that transports her to hidden world where she must put her mother on trial for crimes against parenting. 

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Colour | English | Coming-of-Age Drama

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Producers: Sophie Mathisen, 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