🏆 "The Rock Speaks" wins the Ster-Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best African Short! A genre-defying portrait of Congo’s environmental and political trauma - poetic, urgent, unforgettable. 🎬 #Encounters25 #AfricanCinema

🎖️ "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" receives a Special Mention for the Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best International Feature Documentary! A bold, timely exposé on propaganda, indoctrination & resistance in modern Russia. #Encounters25 #MrNobodyAgainstPutin

🥈 "Union" is Runner-Up for the Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best International Feature! A vérité portrait of workers organizing against a billion-dollar Goliath — tender, urgent, and fiercely relevant. #Encounters25 #UnionFilm

🏆 "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk" wins the Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best International Feature. A searing tribute to Fatem Hassouna — journalist, dreamer, martyr — and to every voice silenced in Gaza. #Encounters25 #DocumentaryAsResistance

🏅 Special Mention – Didy 🎬 Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best African Feature Documentary Directed by Gaël Kamilindi & François-Xavier Destors A tender, lyrical portrait of love, memory & queer identity, Didy moves with grace and quiet power. #Encounters2025

🏅 Special Mention – Khartoum Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best African Feature Documentary By Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Philip Cox & Anas Saeed Khartoum is a fearless, frontline portrait of a city in revolt. #Encounters2025 #Sudan #DocForChange

Encounters Festival may be over, but the films live on. Here’s the link to my MODERN TIMES REVIEW on the film “Wxman: Working” that screen at the festival this year. moderntimes.review/womxn-working/ Thank you, Talents Durban #dfm2025 #talentsdurban

🥈 Runner-Up – And She Didn’t Die 🎬 Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best African Feature Documentary Dir. Kethiwe Ngcobo A breathtaking visual love letter from daughter to mother, this doc honours the life and legacy of Lauretta Ngcobo. #Encounters2025 #WomenInFilm

Congratulations to Gaël Kamilindi and François-Xavier Destors and their team for receiving a #SpecialMention with their feature doc #DIDY at Encounters Festival in South Africa.

Congrats to the NFVF-funded documentary “And She Didn’t Die” on getting 2 awards at @encountersDoc 2025! The film, by Khethiwe Ngcobo, won the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Edited South African Feature Documentary and was runner-up for the Best African Feature-length Documentary.

Encounters Al Jazeera Award for Best African Feature Documentary Winner — Mothers of Chibok by Director Joel 'Kachi' Benson This year’s standout African feature embodies resilience. Mothers of Chibok honours the women left after the 2014 Boko Haram schoolgirl abductions.

Due to overwhelming love (and a little tech hiccup), How To Build A Library returns for another screening Sun, 6 July📍 Ster-Kinekor Nouveau Rosebank Don’t miss your chance to experience this favourite on the big screen! #EncountersDocFest #HowToBuildALibrary #EncoreScreening

Happy weekend! Wrote some reviews on films that screened at Encounters Festival You can read them at the Talents Durban website talentpress.org and anticipate reviews from Durban Film Festival soon!

Big congrats to Kutelani Rasikhuthyma, co-editor of And She Didn't Die, for winning the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Edited South African Feature at Encounters Festival! The jury praised its masterful rhythm & precision.

Big congrats to Khalid Shamis, co-editor of And She Didn't Die, for winning the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Edited South African Feature at Encounters Festival! The jury praised its masterful rhythm & precision.

Big congrats to Dan Canyon, co-editor of Never Come Fetch Me, for winning the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Edited South African Short at Encounters Festival! The jury praised its masterful rhythm & precision.

Big congrats to Xander Vander, co-editor of Never Come Fetch Me, for winning the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Edited South African Short at Encounters Festival! The jury praised its masterful rhythm & precision.