John Kani Movies

It's a jungle out there. That's how we meet our lead character Jack. It's been five years since he's seen his partner and best friend Twala. Jack did...

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors...

An MBA goes to Africa to make a deal, but comes out with a Princess.

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced...

Set in Zululand South Africa three Zulu men must re-awaken sleeping demons when Mpiyakhe, now a successful Johannesburg businessman, returns home....

When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of...

True story of a man who believes God owns the earth and land cannot be owned by anyone, therefore he's at liberty to build his church on ground...

An American couple moves to Johannesburg after Nelson Mandela is elected president.

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness...

An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.

In the late 19th century, Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his...

Melody returns to her old home to Fairlands the funeral of their daughter, June to attend. But Melody not recognize their city regains because it is...

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.

Beyond the Light Barrier is the autobiographical true story of Elizabeth Klarer, a South African woman, and Akon, an astrophysicist from Meton, a...

The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life...

As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’...

A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era