Movies: Ivan Abrahams

A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the w...

The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's gang of street urc...

"Toorbos" explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930's....

A young man is forced to confront his limitations, face the ghosts of the past in order to unite a fractured community and realise his dream of leading his town's Christmas Choir Band to former glory....

Magdaleen, a lonely widow in her 70s, creates an imaginary version of her deceased husband to numb the sadness and pain. After being so overwhelmed with her memories for so long, she desperately tries to re-enter the outside world and see the sea aga...