A Bollywood film with sex won the Durban International Film Festival. The award-winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the festival’s 37th edition at the Playhouse prior to the...

The Durban International Film Festival opens on 16 June and the SA film industry is alive and well. The day is significant as it is the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising. The world premieres...

Producer, Anant Singh and director, Oliver Schmitz announced with great disappointment, the withdrawal of their film SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS from the Durban International Film Festival. Speaking from...

This year’s edition of the Durban International Film Festival (16-26 June) once more features a very strong selection of African titles. With just under half of all the films originating from Africa...

The annual Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) and the Durtban FilmMart (DFM) have announced the dates for next year’s editions, which take place almost a month earlier than the usual July...

The Durban International Film Festival announced its award-winners at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 36th edition at the Suncoast Cinecentre, prior to the screening of the closing film, The...

Showing at DIFF at the same time as its opening in the US is a fascinating documentary about the gay voice called Do I sound gay?. The film is a funny yet technical examination of the gay voice,...

I saw one of the best crime thrillers that I've ever seen last night and visited Taste of Durban, a food festival presented outdoors in the pouring rain.  Durbanites huddled under their umbrellas...

Nike changed their well-known slogan from Just do it to Joost do it on the sports icon's 43nd birthday. Normally that sort of tribute would mean you have made it. In his case, it was a way of...

  I arrived in Durban, one of the world's top surf cities and a sub tropical paradise on 22 July and it's wet, cold and gloomy.  Allow me to quote eighties band A-ha when they sang "The sun...