Great African director Abderrahmane Sissako brings his lucid brilliance and unparalleled artistry to an account of the early days of the Islamic Jihadist takeover of northern Timbuktu in 2012, a Jury prize winner at Cannes.

Cult director Andrew Worsdale returns with a noir romance set among South Africa's marginalised white underclass, a story inspired by a real-life killer couple.

In August 2012, workers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a strike for better wages. Six days later the police brutally suppressed the strikers, killing 34 and injuring many more. Here Rehad Desai pieces together what happened in those six brutal days...

Veve follows the lives of multiple characters trying to find themselves in a world of political intrigue, revenge, love and longings for success complemented by the background of the thriving yet unregulated veve (khat) business

A documentary focusing on Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Followed by a Skype Q&A with Albie Sachs.

Set in South Africa's Cape Flats, in a community dominated by gangsters and violence, this beautifully made and adrenaline-charged film depicts both brutal violence and a sense of hope that a young man can escape the cycle.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, celebrated South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane's latest film takes an unflinching look at Nelson Mandela.

This powerful and illuminating new documentary (narrated by Lauryn Hill) from Black Power Mixtape director Goran Hugo Olsson looks at the often violent struggles that would lead to the decolonisation of Africa in the 60s and 70s.

African short films from 1 to 20 minutes are always one of the most popular events in the Festival. This is an eclectic programme of films from Africa and the Diaspora and a prize will be given for the best local entry.

A half striped zebra, rejected by his superstitious herd for being different, Khumba ventures beyond the fence on a daring quest to find courage, self-acceptance, and earn his stripes.

After witnessing the horrors of World War II fascism, Lionel Rogosin vowed to fight it wherever he saw it. Secretly filmed in 1959, this glimpse of life under South African apartheid reveals a largely concealed environment of injustice.