Movies that capture the atmosphere of the city.
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Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
Some of South Africa’s top musicians including Abdullah Ibrahim, Miriam Makeba, and Hugh Masekela star in this documentary on the role of music as a force against apartheid.
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Joseph Fiennes plays James Gregory, warder to Dennis Haysbert’s Nelson Mandela, in this powerful drama that tracks the changing relationship between the two during their time on Robben Island.
Long Night’s Journey into Day (2000)
Sundance award-winning documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission focusing on the case of Amy Biehl, the American Fulbright scholar and anti-apartheid activist stabbed to death in Cape Town’s Guguletu township.
Proteus (2003)
Robben Island’s penal colony is the moody setting for this interracial gay love story based on a true story from the 18th century.
U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha (2005)
Bizet’s opera transported to the Cape Town suburb of Khayelitsha. Winner of a Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear award and performed in the native South African isiXhosa language.
