title: iThemba

type: Backdrop

type: Poster

status: Released

IDFA 2010 | Trailer | iThemba

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: Their country is bankrupt. Their bodies are broken. Neighbors consider them cursed. But in music, eight disabled Zimbabweans dared to hope.

title: iThemba

title: iThemba

overview: Imagínate un país donde cada día mueren más personas a causa del SIDA, la malnutrición y la falta de atención médica, que los que mueren en Afganistán, Iraq o Darfur. Donde los hospitales funcionan sin médicos, las ciudades pueden pasar meses sin agua corriente y la tasa de desempleo es del 90%. Imagínate ahora cómo es circular por este país -donde los discapacitados son vistos como seres malditos- con silla de ruedas, sin poder utilizar las manos o con alguna otra discapacidad. No hace falta que te lo imagines. Ithemba –"esperanza" en ndebele– te lleva a Zimbabue a través de Liana, un conjunto musical formado por ocho jóvenes discapacitados que afrontan con sentido del humor y valentía la caótica realidad de su país y los prejuicios sociales y culturales profundamente arraigados.

title: 이템바

overview: 에이즈, 영양실조와 의료시설 부족으로 인한 사망자 수가 아프가니스탄, 이라크 혹은 다르푸르에서 살해되는 수보다 더 많은 나라가 있다. 짐바브웨의 병원에는 의사가 없고 도시에서는 몇 달째 물 없이 생활하고 있으며, 실업률은 90%가 넘는다. 8명의 젊은 음악가로 구성된 밴드 리야나는 혼란스럽고 절망적인 정치, 경제 현실에 유머와 투지로 맞서나간다.

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

original_title: iThemba

original_language: sn


title: Democrats

overview: An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution.  Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe's dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option.

title: Democrats

title: Democrats

title: Demokraté

overview: Politická tragikomedie ze zákulisí přípravy nové ústavy v Zimbabwe... Od roku 2010 do roku 2013 sledoval v Zimbabwe štáb dánské režisérky Camilly Nielssonové činnost přípravného výboru pro vypracování nové ústavy. Už přes třicet let tam vládne strana ZANU vedená autoritativním prezidentem Robertem Mugabem a nová ústava měla být právním předpokladem pro demokratizaci země. Nielssonová dostala možnost natáčet dva spolupředsedy tohoto výboru – Paula Mangwanu /ZANU/ a Douglase Mwonzory /opoziční MDC/. Nešlo jen o zákulisní vyjednávání, ale členové přípravného výboru také velmi aktivně navštěvovali mítinky pořádané po celém Zimbabwe, během kterých se prostí lidé mohli k návrhu ústavy vyjadřovat. Nová ústava byla nakonec přijata, ale deklarovaná občanská práva zůstávají na papíře...

title: 民主主义者

overview: 在政局动荡的津巴布韦，强人罗伯特·穆加贝领导的执政党与分裂的反对党正共同起草新宪法。然而各方政治势力、地方利益与个人诉求交织，使这一进程陷入僵局。

title: Democrats

overview: Vincitore del Tribeca Film Festival come miglior documentario, Democrats racconta l’accidentato processo di trasformazione e democratizzazione dello Zimbawe, un paese che negli ultimi 20 anni è passato attraverso molte trasformazioni, anche dolorose. La ricerca di una nuova forma di Stato è stata, e ancora oggi è, una costante per il paese.

character: Himself

type: Cast

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Original Music Composer

department: Sound

original_title: Democrats

title: Mugabe and the Democrats

country: GB

title: Democratas

country: BR

title: Mugabe och Demokraterna

country: SE

production_countries: DK ZW


title: The Tunnel

overview: A moving story of a young girl in search of her father.

title: The Tunnel

character: Elizabeth

character: Jesey

character: Dumiso

character: Commander Masuku

character: Father Nils

character: Luke

character: 5th Brigade commander

character: Monica

character: Thomas

character: Oliver

character: South African Corporal

character: South African Sergeant

character: Beatrice

character: Jonathan

character: Guerrilla

character: Guerrila

character: Guerilla

character: 5th Brigade Soldier

character: Village Girl

character: Village Man

character: Villager

character: Village Child

character: Digger


title: At the Water

overview: Pamvura (At the Water) is a story about beliefs and unknown forces. Netsai, a devout young christian woman, she loses her child while doing laundry at the river. She does not know the cause behind her child´s disappearance. What does she do to get her son back, where does she go for consultations about her little son´s disappearance and how she can get him back to her. Yet as much as she wants he son back, she finds it hard in her christian life to make a sacrifice of life. Find out in Pamvura what happens when faith is stronger than religion

title: At the Water

character: Netsai

character: Husband

job: Screenplay

department: Writing

original_title: Pamvura


title: Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day

overview: Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.

title: Kare Kare Zvako: Mother's Day

character: Mother

character: Father

character: Tino

character: Kuda

character: Maidei

character: Baby

character: Dancer

character: Mother (vocals)

character: Father (vocals)

character: Tino (vocals)

character: Kuda (vocals)

character: Meidei (vocals)

character: Baby (vocals)

job: Sound

job: Music

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

job: Writer

job: Choreographer

job: Lyricist

job: Makeup Artist

department: Costume & Make-Up

original_title: Kare kare zvako


title: Gringo Troublemaker

overview: In a bid to impress his girlfriend, a young man engages a traditional healer to help him get rich quick. Unfortunately, he accidentally meets Gringo, whose mischief disturbs all that he had planned.

title: Gringo Troublemaker

original_title: Gringo Troublemaker


title: I Want a Wedding Dress

overview: The story of young Kundisai Sande who desperately wants to get married but finds herself in a sexual network with disastrous consequences. Her boyfriend Teri deserts her, only to find himself in the same sexual network. Mahachi, the successful, promiscuous businessman who seduces Kundisai brings infection to the marriage bed. In the midst of their misery, the players in the sexual network come to realize that One Love can conquer all.

title: I Want a Wedding Dress

character: Chido

character: Kundisai Sande

character: Josiah Mahachi

original_title: I Want a Wedding Dress


title: Womxn : Working

overview: Womxn : Working is a portrait of Nosipho Vidima, a sex work activist and feminist from South Africa as well as her comrades who are engaged in a struggle to decriminalize sex work in their country. Facing discrimination and marginalization due to their chosen profession, these women are taking the fight to change the law to the streets and protesting in the halls of legislation where they lobby. Currently many sex workers are victims of violence, police brutality and rejection by their communities. The decriminalization of their trade will mean an improved status and better access.

title: Womxn : Working

original_title: Womxn : Working


title: If Vagina Had Teeth: The Shona Rainmaking Ceremony in Western Mozambique

overview: "Ritual reversals" or "rituals of rebellion" are concepts used for mock rituals performed in Southern and Eastern Africa. During fertility rituals, like rain ceremonies, women in their songs and dances demonstrate obscene behaviour while they behave like men. These are secret performances open strictly for elderly men and women. Still, we were invited to record the rain making ceremony in the land of Chief Chassuka, Manika Province in Mozambique, in order to document the ritual for the younger generations. These rituals are a fading tradition probably due to the special character of the songs and dances.

job: Sound Designer

title: Kui vagiinal oleks hambad: Šona vihmategemistseremoonia Lääne-Mosambiigis

country: EE

production_countries: EE MZ


title: Diamond

Official Trailer

key: AyWjQqWKwAg

overview: Set in 2006 amidst the diamond mining rush that started in Zimbabwe. To claim back their land, the Toropito brothers have to raise enough money to buy it back, forcing them to join the illegal diamond mining world.

title: Diamond

character: Tindo

character: Bhuru

character: Taps

character: Toro

character: Gora

character: Chenge

character: Kiki

character: Officer

character: Guard

character: Lovemore

character: Sex worker

character: Mushayi

character: Domasi

job: Associate Producer

job: Production Design

department: Art

job: Gaffer

department: Lighting

job: Assistant Director

job: Colorist

job: Sound Post Supervisor

job: Executive Producer

job: Story


title: Fleas

overview: Tonderai, a young Zimbabwean boy living in a South African township, watches as a xenophobic mob runs rampant through his neighbourhood. He watches over his gravely ill younger brother, who becomes desperate for drinking water.

title: Fleas

job: Director

job: Producer

job: Editor

original_title: Amazeze

title: Fleas

country: ZA

title: Amazeze

country: IT


title: Matabeleland

overview: Chris, an immigrant, grapples with economic chains, a fragile love, and the haunting past of his homeland, Matabeleland. Amidst societal upheavals, he must find a way to retribution and reconciliation in a world that has forgotten him.

title: Matabeleland

job: Cinematography

job: Music

original_title: Matabeleland

production_countries: ZW KE BW CA


title: God Sleeps on Sundays

name: God Sleeps On Sundays - Trailer | IFFR 2026

overview: James, a disgraced preacher exiled after a city scandal, is assigned to build a new church in a distant rural community. However, the land bought by the church is occupied by Chirongoma, a revered traditional healer. As a fierce rivalry breaks out between James and Chirongoma over the land, God Sleeps on Sundays presents a timely critique on the imperialist nature of religion in displacing Indigenous communities and eroding ancestral traditions.

title: God Sleeps on Sundays

title: God Sleeps on Sundays

character: James

character: Mavis

character: Chirongoma

character: Chief

job: Writer

job: Director of Photography

job: Executive Co-Producer

job: Script Supervisor

job: First Assistant Director

original_title: God Sleeps on Sundays