Port Nolloth: Between a rock and a hard place
Documentary
Once a thriving mining hub on the remote South African West Coast, the town of Port Nolloth has been forsaken after the mining corporates turned their backs on the area.
Following three of it’s inhabitants, this documentary atmospherically explores what’s left of the diamond fever: There is Nick, the god-fearing ex-mayor who was charged with illegal diamond trading; Derrick, a taxi driver trying to get back on his feet after being convicted of smuggling and Geoffrey, an ageing diamond diver, longing for his lucky break.
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Forerunners
Documentary
Forerunners soulfully explores what it means to be black and middle class in South Africa today. At the frontier of unprecedented social change, Miranda, Mpumi, Martin and Karabo are part of the first generation of black South Africans to rise from poverty and join the country’s ‘middle class’.
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Into the light
Shortfilm
After hitting a turning point in his life, 50-year-old skateboard veteran Bruce Callaghan from Durban, South Africa finds back to his old passion in the Bay of Plenty skate park. With the refurbishments for the 2010 football world cup, the Durban beachfront is now a safe place for all. But will Bruce master the challenge of organizing a skate competition for his fellow skaters, half his age?
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After the war
Audio-Slideshow
In his home country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 22 year old Carole Machumu is a famous professional football goalkeeper. When the ongoing civil war claimed his father’s life and tore apart the rest of his family, he decided to flee to South Africa.
However, In South Africa, with his refugee status, he is not allowed to proceed with his professional career and has to work…
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The Big Issue – Reflections
Shortfilm
Two women live in Cape Town and yet in two utterly different worlds. Alison comes from the well-off downtown sphere whilst Nundomiso lives in a squatter camp far outside the city gates. The street magazine The Big Issue builds a bridge over the deep social gap that divides both women from one another…
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Ahne & Ähne
Photo-Reportage
For almost 20 years I lived down the road from my grandparents house, in Kayh, a small village near Tübingen, Germany. Apart from ocassional visits and lending a hand in the plum fields in fall, however, I didn’t have a lot do with Elfriede and Alfred Gußmann. It was only when i moved away to Hannover that I realized what a special life they led with their hard work and their strong belief…
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No better place
Photo-Reportage
For 6 years now the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, has been a home to a changing number of people, most of whom have fled from the deep crisis in their home country Zimbabwe. As they don’t have the official papers that would allow them to work and roam freely in South Africa, they are practically confined to the church…
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Senior Ladies Diving Club
Photo-Reportage
The Ama divers on Iki Island in Southern Japan dive for sea urchins, as it is a delicacy widely enjoyed in Japan and exported to all parts of the world. The trade has a history of hundreds of years and over the centuries the work hasn’t changed much: The divers still use goggles, flippers and a steel hook as their only gear – and diving is still strictly reserved for women only…
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Portraits
Photos
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