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Documentary Filmmakers Association of South Africa serves to assist, protect & promote documentary filmmakers in South Africa. Official Account. info@docfilmsa.

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Joined September 2015
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✨Join docLOVE this Saturday at Du Monye Art Gallery for a screening of MAMA-DEMIC! Discover a doctor’s journey balancing motherhood and her medical career in a public maternity ward. 📅31 Oct | 14:30–17:00 📍Du Monye Art Gallery, Bloemfontein 🎟️FREE entry #docLOVE #DFA #PESP6
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🎤Join docLOVE this Saturday at Du Monye Art Gallery for a screening of AMIGO THE GRIOT! Meet a blind Afrikaaps rapper and storyteller whose music connects memory, creativity and community. 📅31 Oct | 14:30–17:00 📍Du Monye Art Gallery, Bloemfontein 🎟️FREE entry #docLove #DFA
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🎬 Bloemfontein! Join docLOVE for two FREE documentaries! ✨ MAMA-DEMIC: Motherhood & medicine. 🎤 AMIGO THE GRIOT: Music, memory & community. 📅 31 Oct | 14:30–17:00 📍 Du Monye Art Gallery, 13C Kenneth Kaunda Rd, Bayswater 🎟️ FREE entry #docLOVE #DFASouthAfrica #PESP6
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🧡Join docLOVE this Saturday at Bertha House for A LITTLE BLACKMAN FROM CONGO! Filmmaker Tshililo waha Muzila explores racism, migration & Black identity along Spain’s Camino de Santiago. 📅31 Oct | 11:00–14:00 📍Bertha House, 69 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town 🎟️FREE entry
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🌈Join docLOVE for a screening of TRIBE this Saturday at Cape Town! Follow Nyasha, a Zimbabwean lesbian migrant building a lifeline for fellow LGBTQIA+ migrants during lockdown. 📅31 October | 11:00–14:00 📍Bertha House, 69 Main Road, Mowbray, Cape Town 🎟️FREE entry
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🎬Cape Town, Join docLOVE for two documentaries on migration, identity & community. 🧡A Little Blackman from Congo 🌈Tribe 📅31 Oct | 11:00–14:00 📍Bertha House, Mowbray 🎟️FREE entry Presented by DFA’s docLOVE, supported by PESP 6 through the NFVF. #docLOVE #DFA #PESP6
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🎬DFA x Encounters x FAME Week Africa 2026 📅Friday, 30 October | 14:00–14:45 📍Brain Box Theatre, CTICC Join Ameera Faber, Zanda Nosenga, Moenieba Isaacs, Sharon Farr, Jane Thandi Lipman and Kimal Harvey to explore documentary collaborations. #DFA #FAMEWeekAfrica2026
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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Final MOTHERCITY screening in SterKinekor theatres this week Thursday 22nd October in Cape Town and Joburg. Check posters for details. Get your tickets, see you there. mothercitydocumentary.com/wa…
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Thank you to Durban FilmMart for the partnership and platform for collaboration. Thanks to our DFA members who joined our panel and breakfasts, and shared their photos! May these connections lead to fruitful collaborations. 🎬🤝 #DFA #DurbanFilmMart
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DFA is proud to introduce its board for the 2026-27 year!🎬 We look forward to the fresh perspectives, collaboration and continued growth this new chapter will bring to South Africa’s documentary film community. Here’s to building a stronger future for documentary storytelling!
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DFA x Durban FilmMart SA 2026 🎬 📅 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 ⏰ 13:45–14:45 📍 Elangeni Hotel, Suites 3+4, Durban Catch Jacqui Hlongwane, Jane Lipman, Catherine Meyburgh & Diliza Moabi, moderated by Sara Hatira for a timely conversation on documentary storytelling. #DFM2026 #DFM #DFA
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Join us for two documentary shorts: Exodus (Sudan) + Radio Dabaab (Kenya) followed by a conversation on migration, exile, and the African heritage we share across the continent’s colonially demarcated borders. Bertha House, CPT Saturday 26th September 13:00 - 15:30 FREE ENTRY
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🎬 MOTHER CITY SECURES A NATIONWIDE CINEMA RELEASE! We are thrilled that the powerful documentary Mother City will screen at @sterkinekor & Cinema Nouveau cinemas across Mzansi from 1st to 8th October. All ticket at R50 each on the link below: mothercitydocumentary.com/wa…
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Check for the dates and venues in your city!
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Looking forward to seeing short doccie format on our screens! #GoViralSABC
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The road to fame and fortune has changed. Today, it can lie right in the palm of your hand. Go Viral takes you behind the posts, dances, jokes & moments that made Mzansi stop, watch & share. Catch #GoViral on Saturdays, 19h30PM on SABC 1. Mzansi fo sho! #GoViralSABC
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Join us for this month's #docLOVE screening of NOBUNTU by Sihle-Isipho Nontshokweni, followed by Q&A. A moving story of grief, healing and the bond between mothers and daughters. 📅 Sun 23 Aug | 🕑 2PM 📍 @the_Bioscope 🎟 Reserve your seat: tickets.tixsa.co.za/event/do… @lwanie
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🎬 FILMMAKER FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT: DFA member JEANDRÉ GERDING An African wildlife and impact filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of storytelling, conservation, faith and humanity. #DFA #DocumentaryFilm #WildlifeFilmmaking #AfricanCinema
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From filming for the BBC, National Geographic, Disney, Apple and Discovery to producing powerful stories that inspire change, Jeandré continues to use documentary filmmaking to deepen our connection with the natural world and the people who protect it.
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