Gay Themed Movies from South Africa
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
After returning home from conversion therapy, Nick seeks to move on from his previous partner. While catching up with his friends, he locks eyes with a strange yet familiar figure he eagerly hopes to meet.⠀
Directed by Antony Rangel Coll
A chance encounter with a neighbor helps a musician deal with his creative block.
Director: Chadlee Skrikker
A farmhand writes letters to his lover while working on a farm for a month.
Written/directed by Brandon Clarke
Hand Off (2019) – gay short film written/directed by Chadlee Skrikker, 24 min, South africa, A rugby player admits to having a crush on his best friend and teammate.
The film portrays the lives of two gay men and one transgender woman who left their home countries because of discrimination and persecution. Now in South Africa they applied for refugee status on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
In Beyond Repair, a gay seventeen year-old named Simon is forced to live with his brother Falkner, who runs a cult-like group that tries to force men into living heterosexual lives. Falkner uses violence and threats but also his love for his younger brother to manipulate Simon into rejecting his identity and becoming like him.
A young man drafted into South Africa’s military, but he knows he is different and must keep himself hidden. However, when another recruit develops an intimate relationship with them, they are now both in danger.
Director: Oliver Hermanus
A regular hookup between two men becomes more complicated than intended.
Director: Chadlee Skrikker
Stars: Matthew Barrett, Laurent de Froberville, Hagar Joubert
Eersgeorene explores identity and sexuality within the Afrikaans minority culture of post-Apartheid South Africa through a fable about two brothers who descend into matricide and madness on a remote ostrich farm.
Director: Etienne Kallos
‘The Prodigal’ forms part of the Love Bombs and takes an experimental look at sexual identity, redemption and grace.
