Movies: Urucu Media

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recup...

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a...

In 1989, Mozambique is a country ruined by civil war. The train that connects Nampula to Malawi is the only hope for people willing to risk their lives to exchange a few bags of salt for sugar. Running slowly over sabotaged tracks, the journey is fil...

Part travelogue, part urban allegory – and a fresh perspective on Jozi. Filmmakers Lalloo and Walsh, drawing on a rich tradition of city- centred direct cinema practitioners, bring together a team of women directors, and offer a curious record of lif...

On a failed romantic island getaway, straight-laced orthodontist, Dr Shaloba Molefe decides to kidnap her unravelling family and won’t let them leave until they love her again…Brace Yourself!...

South Africa, 1790. Abiona, the brilliant daughter of an exiled Imam, makes a pact with a Dutch Officer. In exchange for help freeing her imprisoned father, she feeds him stories that could hold the cure to the blood-drinking curse consuming him....