Love in a time of HIV

Rulleska Singh 5min

With South Africa’s HIV instances soaring and stigma towards the disease on a high, this piece aims to highlight that people with HIV are no different. Using love as the example, Love in a time of HIV follows a couple who fell in love and are both HIV positive; their hopes, plans and life. I hope that this piece will be a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the manageability of HIV and the hope of a stigma-fee South Africa.
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people are beautiful

Joni Els 5min

Life as a paranoid schizophrenic. An evocative portrait of someone diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This piece shows the unsettling yet beautiful nature of everyday life, as told by an out patient from the Fort England Hospital of Grahamstown.
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She’s come undone

Xoli Matomela 5min

A look inside the world of a lady who has given her life to the oldest profession. This story comes completely from her, a stream of conscioiusness, a diary entry, an unravelling of how she has come undone.
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The bigger picture

Anthony Andrews 5min

When most people think about celibacy, if at all, they think of deprivation, like choosing to not eat a very good piece of chocolate cake. Even if you don’t think of it that way perhaps you try to rationalise or understand it using another metaphor. This is to be expected since most of us try to understand new concepts using a metaphor in our own mental archive, or at least that’s what the psychologists tell us. This short film tries to understand celibacy using a new and different metaphor, one which you might not agree with but one which might help you understand this strange and possibly new concept. It is a positive metaphor, one which tries to explain what celibacy is and not what it is devoid of. Along the way you will meet two marvellous people who put faces to the concepts and metaphors.
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Wanda/Woman

Gabrielle Gray 5min

Wanda Fourie is a female body builder from East London, South Africa. Competing in a typically “masculine” sport not only has the physical effects that one would expect, but takes its it toll on all aspects of one’s life. Wanda gives insight into her daily routine as she prepares for the Border Body Building competition, a run-up to the South African National competition. As we follow her progress, we discover how body-building has ultimately changed Wanda’s life…for the better.
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