Film & Documentary

Stories that move.

Documentary films and photographs from Cape Town, on land, housing, schools and the people organising for change.

Title card of Mother City over Cape Town wrapped in cloud

Feature documentary, 2024

Mother City

Zacharia was on camera. A six-year documentary about activists fighting for affordable housing on well-located public land in Cape Town, from the Tafelberg School site to the courts and Parliament.

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Land, housing and the right to the city in Cape Town.

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Bo-Kaap residents roll burning tyres into the street to protest gentrification.
Lit only by a candle.
Reclaim the City occupies the Green Point bowling greens.
Reading by a single window in a dark occupation.

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A woman in a blue dress stands above the crowd with her fist raised, mountains behind

A raised fist above the crowd, mountains behind her.

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