Southern African Films and Documentaries

Southern African Films and Documentaries

Villon Films


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Villon Films · 2005 English

Surfing and apartheid past and present told through the experience of a black surfer.


Villon Films · 2004 English

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, urban Basotho men on a mission. They travel with a mobile cinema unit through the mountains of Lesotho, screening their film to very remote …


Villon Films · 2002 English

A Zimbabwean of Indian heritage returns to his country after many years to assess the changes brought about by the Mugabe regime.


Villon Films · 2001 English

Cardoso, one of Southern Africa’s leading investigative journalists, was gunned down in Maputo in November 2000. This is a portrait of Cardoso’s isolated voice of opposition to the growing tide …


Villon Films · 1999 English

Cross-section of life in today’s South Africa based on what was once the busiest highway of Africa.


Villon Films · 1997 English

Women of Africa: wives, mothers, labourers, nurturers. Now, in the wake of the AIDS pandemic women also serve as care-givers to family and community members afflicted with HIV or AIDS. …


Villon Films · 1996 English

Biography of the South African writer and politician, a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope.


Villon Films · 1994 English

This two-part series examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. It questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereo types and reluctance to depict black heroes. Almost from …


Villon Films · 1993 English

Rod Amateau and Harold Nebenzal were an American film and television screenwriters, directors, and producers. They were the scriptwriters of The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Kenya and set during apartheid …


Villon Films · 1993 English

This two-part series examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. It questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereo types and reluctance to depict black heroes. Almost from …