Stars: Nicole Fortuin, Jane de Wet, Carel Nel, Tristan de Beer, Lida Botha, Roberto Kyle, David Viviers, Shalima Mkongi, Sihle Mnqwazana, Emma Kotze | Written by Tertius Kapp | Directed by Jaco Bouwer
When a group of friends embark on their dream coastal break to attend the ultimate rave in an off-grid town, they get a fear-filled awakening as their night of raging becomes their worst nightmare… As their experiences become weirder and weirder, they release that they’ve been drugged and dragged into a dark, shocking, deadly ritual.
Following his 2021 eco-horror, Gaia, director Jaco Bouwer crafts his latest horror flick in a small coastal village. Holidaying there are a group of teenagers on their gap year, staying at a local house as they celebrate by partying to excess. As they disregard a warning to leave, the group are soon picked off one by one.
As they joyfully party to celebrate their freedom from school,...
When a group of friends embark on their dream coastal break to attend the ultimate rave in an off-grid town, they get a fear-filled awakening as their night of raging becomes their worst nightmare… As their experiences become weirder and weirder, they release that they’ve been drugged and dragged into a dark, shocking, deadly ritual.
Following his 2021 eco-horror, Gaia, director Jaco Bouwer crafts his latest horror flick in a small coastal village. Holidaying there are a group of teenagers on their gap year, staying at a local house as they celebrate by partying to excess. As they disregard a warning to leave, the group are soon picked off one by one.
As they joyfully party to celebrate their freedom from school,...
- 8/16/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Daniel Sharman, Grace Van Dien, Keenan Arrison among cast.
The Exchange has acquired worldwide rights excluding Africa to Kelsey Egan’s sci-fi thriller The Fix and is launching talks here in Cannes.
Writer-director Egan’s second feature takes place after a toxic compound infects earth’s atmosphere and follows a troubled young model who takes an illicit new drug at a party and suffers a shocking transformation.
As she hunts for a ‘fix’ to reverse the drug’s effects the model learns that her mutation may be the key to saving the human race.
Daniel Sharman (Fear The Walking Dead...
The Exchange has acquired worldwide rights excluding Africa to Kelsey Egan’s sci-fi thriller The Fix and is launching talks here in Cannes.
Writer-director Egan’s second feature takes place after a toxic compound infects earth’s atmosphere and follows a troubled young model who takes an illicit new drug at a party and suffers a shocking transformation.
As she hunts for a ‘fix’ to reverse the drug’s effects the model learns that her mutation may be the key to saving the human race.
Daniel Sharman (Fear The Walking Dead...
- 5/15/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
As a perennially popular international filming location — its varied landscapes standing in for everywhere from the Sahara to the French Riviera — South Africa has provided the anonymous backdrop for many a slick big-budget action thriller over the years. Rarer are films from the country’s own industry that aspire to equivalent commercial thrills, which lends Cape Town-based writer-director Travis Taute’s debut feature “Indemnity” a certain bracing novelty that counters its more generic qualities. Joining a Ptsd-afflicted firefighter on the run after being framed for the murder of his wife, Taute’s diverting film punches well above its modestly budgeted weight in terms of propulsive, literally incendiary action scenes — but is on less sure footing with a narrative that lurches from lean fugitive drama to overworked conspiracy nightmare.
A far stricter edit could have solved a number of problems in this unevenly paced and, at 124 minutes, significantly overlong film, which...
A far stricter edit could have solved a number of problems in this unevenly paced and, at 124 minutes, significantly overlong film, which...
- 2/4/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Find Her Exclusive Poster Reveal & New Stills: "Psychological Thriller Find Her has released it's final poster (attached) and revised synopsis (see below) ahead of the film's 2022 release.
The noir stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randal Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer.
Filmed in Louisiana and Florida, Find Her was directed by Nick McCallum from his own script with Emmy award winning director of photography, Evan Zissimopulos providing the cinematography.
In the film, a mysterious ex-cop named Isaiah Slade arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still missing daughter. It slowly becomes clear that not only are there multiple suspects, but that Slade himself has his...
The noir stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randal Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer.
Filmed in Louisiana and Florida, Find Her was directed by Nick McCallum from his own script with Emmy award winning director of photography, Evan Zissimopulos providing the cinematography.
In the film, a mysterious ex-cop named Isaiah Slade arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still missing daughter. It slowly becomes clear that not only are there multiple suspects, but that Slade himself has his...
- 1/21/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Two women’s escape from the law takes on racial undertones in a thriller that veers boldly from humorous to harrowing
South African masculinity does not come off at all well in this off-kilter drama, which pits an improbable number of gender, race and class tensions against each other but remains watchable throughout. Set in the striking, desolate landscape of the Karoo desert outside Cape Town, it’s a Thelma and Louise-like tale of two women on the run from predatory menfolk, although the cop pursuing them is another woman with her own man-related issues. Nobody’s hands are particularly clean.
It’s clear from the opening wedding scene between poor, beautiful Natalie (Nicole Fortuin), who is Black, and awkward white cop Bakkies that this is not a match made in heaven. Things don’t improve on their wedding night, which ends in a rape and a killing, with...
South African masculinity does not come off at all well in this off-kilter drama, which pits an improbable number of gender, race and class tensions against each other but remains watchable throughout. Set in the striking, desolate landscape of the Karoo desert outside Cape Town, it’s a Thelma and Louise-like tale of two women on the run from predatory menfolk, although the cop pursuing them is another woman with her own man-related issues. Nobody’s hands are particularly clean.
It’s clear from the opening wedding scene between poor, beautiful Natalie (Nicole Fortuin), who is Black, and awkward white cop Bakkies that this is not a match made in heaven. Things don’t improve on their wedding night, which ends in a rape and a killing, with...
- 8/17/2021
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Meet Theo (Jarrid Geduld). He’s a former firefighter traumatised by a rescue gone wrong which we see, in part, in the prologue to this film. He wants to go back to work but his captain tells him he isn’t ready, and it’s easy to see why. His wife Angela (Nicole Fortuin) is worried about his behaviour, too. He’s resisting therapy, saying he doesn’t need it, though the truth may be that he simply finds it too distressing. In that regard, his life is about to get a whole lot worse.
Angela is a journalist. One day she gets a call telling her that Theo’s life is in danger, follows up, and is provided with a dossier providing convincing evidence of a large political and corporate conspiracy whose targets all seem to end up dead or in prison. Before she can find out why her husband is on the list,...
Angela is a journalist. One day she gets a call telling her that Theo’s life is in danger, follows up, and is provided with a dossier providing convincing evidence of a large political and corporate conspiracy whose targets all seem to end up dead or in prison. Before she can find out why her husband is on the list,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Indemnity Review — Indemnity (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Travis Taute, starring Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, Andre Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin, Louw Venter, Abduragman Adams, Hlomla Dandala, Susan Danford, Qaeed Patel, Toni Jean Erasmus, and Grant Powell. There’s nothing wrong [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Indemnity: A Familiar Action-Thriller That Allows For Fun and Frustration [Fantasia 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Indemnity: A Familiar Action-Thriller That Allows For Fun and Frustration [Fantasia 2021]...
- 8/12/2021
- Film-Book
Indemnity Review — Indemnity (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Travis Taute, starring Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, Andre Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin, Louw Venter, Abduragman Adams, Hlomla Dandala, Susan Danford, Qaeed Patel, Toni Jean Erasmus, and Grant Powell. There’s nothing wrong [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Indemnity: A Familiar Action-Thriller That Allows For Fun and Frustration [Fantasia 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Indemnity: A Familiar Action-Thriller That Allows For Fun and Frustration [Fantasia 2021]...
- 8/12/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Theo Abrams (Jarrid Geduld) jumps into action with CPR upon waking to find his wife’s (Nicole Fortuin’s Angela) dead body by his side. He then immediately clams up when a knock at the front door is accompanied by the declaration “Police!” He doesn’t remember hearing anyone enter their room that night nor recalls a violent struggle. Add the fact that he just lost his job due to an inability to overcome the Ptsd he’s been battling since blaming himself for the deaths of two firefighters under his command and he’s forced to wonder if he’s responsible for Angela too. Theo’s temper and anxiety have been in overdrive and his wife felt the brunt of both. If he can’t trust his own innocence, who can?
This is the question we ask ourselves despite having already processed the fifteen or so minutes of exposition...
This is the question we ask ourselves despite having already processed the fifteen or so minutes of exposition...
- 8/12/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
XYZ Films has acquired North American sales rights to “Indemnity,” an action thriller from South African director Travis Taute that’s set to world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival.
Written and directed by Taute, “Indemnity” tells the story of an ex-firefighter in Cape Town who’s forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Starring Jarrid Geduld, Nicole Fortuin and Andre Jacobs, pic is produced by Benjamin Overmeyer and Bradley Joshua for Gambit Films, the South African production outfit behind the Netflix series “Blood and Water” and the Fantasia prize winner “Number 37.”
“‘Indemnity’ is, at its very core, a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to shine a spotlight on the importance of mental health and deliver sobering insight into the destructive nature of toxic masculinity.
Written and directed by Taute, “Indemnity” tells the story of an ex-firefighter in Cape Town who’s forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Starring Jarrid Geduld, Nicole Fortuin and Andre Jacobs, pic is produced by Benjamin Overmeyer and Bradley Joshua for Gambit Films, the South African production outfit behind the Netflix series “Blood and Water” and the Fantasia prize winner “Number 37.”
“‘Indemnity’ is, at its very core, a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to shine a spotlight on the importance of mental health and deliver sobering insight into the destructive nature of toxic masculinity.
- 8/2/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 – 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan’s culture has played across Fantasia’s history, the festival’s 25th edition will be featuring an enhanced focus on Japanese cinema.
Following the earlier news of the festival’s opening film, the world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec-set zomcom Brain Freeze starring Roy Dupuis and Iani Bédard,...
Following the earlier news of the festival’s opening film, the world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec-set zomcom Brain Freeze starring Roy Dupuis and Iani Bédard,...
- 5/22/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
One of my favorite festivals is back with a virtual event taking place this August! The Fantasia International Film Festival has announced its first wave of programming, which includes a diverse slate of features and a special focus on Japanese cinema:
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 // Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 - 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 // Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 - 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
A grand, desolate expanse of hessian-rough desert, subject to unforgiving seasonal extremes of heat and ice, and whose scattered residents have mostly learned to live hard and die harder, South Africa’s Great Karoo is a region that really ought to have housed a thousand horse operas by now. It hasn’t, but an ambitious new generation of filmmakers is catching up to its possibilities. That atmospheric backdrop was the best thing last year’s overworked, Oscar-submitted period adventure “Sew the Winter to My Skin” had going for it; leaner, meaner and altogether more exciting is “Flatland,” an exhilarating fusion of contemporary western, policier and girls-gone-wild road movie that kicked off this year’s Berlinale Panorama program with a wallop.
The third feature from distinctively voiced writer-director Jenna Bass — who also co-wrote last year’s Kenyan Cannes headline-grabber “Rafiki” — “Flatland” represents something of a feminist milestone for a national cinema...
The third feature from distinctively voiced writer-director Jenna Bass — who also co-wrote last year’s Kenyan Cannes headline-grabber “Rafiki” — “Flatland” represents something of a feminist milestone for a national cinema...
- 2/14/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Three women trapped by circumstances and thrown together by fate set out on a cross-country journey of self-discovery in South African director Jenna Bass’ contemporary Western, “Flatland,” which opens the Panorama section of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Bass returns to Berlin a year after taking part in the Generations program with the satirical thriller “High Fantasy.” For her third feature, she sought to make a film that’s as much a tribute to a beloved genre as a reimagining of its gender tropes, asking herself, “What do I bring to this…that another filmmaker wouldn’t?”
Starring Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin and Izel Bezuidenhout, “Flatland” is produced by Proper Film (South Africa), Deal Prods. (Luxembourg) and Igc Films (Germany), with support from the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund. Sales are being handled by The Match Factory.
The film follows a lonely policewoman pining for her fugitive boyfriend while...
Bass returns to Berlin a year after taking part in the Generations program with the satirical thriller “High Fantasy.” For her third feature, she sought to make a film that’s as much a tribute to a beloved genre as a reimagining of its gender tropes, asking herself, “What do I bring to this…that another filmmaker wouldn’t?”
Starring Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin and Izel Bezuidenhout, “Flatland” is produced by Proper Film (South Africa), Deal Prods. (Luxembourg) and Igc Films (Germany), with support from the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund. Sales are being handled by The Match Factory.
The film follows a lonely policewoman pining for her fugitive boyfriend while...
- 2/8/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
"Poppie, you know what we're doing is dangerous?" In the midst of the winter film festival season, take a look at this stylistic drama arriving later this year. The Match Factory has debuted an international / promo trailer for an indie titled Flatland, the latest feature film directed by Jenna Bass. This "contemporary western" is about the journey of self-discovery for three different but equally trapped women. It paints a vivid and unique portrait of femininity against a hostile frontier land and questions what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large. Faith Baloyi stars as Beauty Cuba, and a cast including Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout, Brendon Daniels, and De Klerk Oelofse. The film features a number of different languages, including English, following these three different women. This looks like something die-hard cinephiles will love, with some crazy footage thrown in. Here's the official...
- 1/30/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Jenna Bass’s “Flatland,” which is the opening film of Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section. Sales are being handled by The Match Factory.
The South African film is a contemporary Western centering on a journey of self-discovery for three different but equally trapped women. “It paints a vivid and unique portrait of femininity against a hostile frontier land and questions what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large,” according to a statement by The Match Factory.
“Flatland” is the story of a lonely policewoman longing to reunite with her fugitive boyfriend, while simultaneously tasked with a murder investigation that has a newly-married former housekeeper and a heavily-pregnant teen as prime suspects. Helped and hindered along the way by an ensemble of wayward denizens, the unlikely trio soon become embroiled in a...
The South African film is a contemporary Western centering on a journey of self-discovery for three different but equally trapped women. “It paints a vivid and unique portrait of femininity against a hostile frontier land and questions what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large,” according to a statement by The Match Factory.
“Flatland” is the story of a lonely policewoman longing to reunite with her fugitive boyfriend, while simultaneously tasked with a murder investigation that has a newly-married former housekeeper and a heavily-pregnant teen as prime suspects. Helped and hindered along the way by an ensemble of wayward denizens, the unlikely trio soon become embroiled in a...
- 1/22/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
22 films in the Panorama programme so far, with nine directorial debuts.
The first 22 titles from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The European premiere of UK director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Tilda Swinton, her daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke, and the world premiere of Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money are among the titles confirmed today.
The line-up also includes the directing debuts of actors Jonah Hill (Mid90s) and Alexander Gorchilin (Acid), and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,...
The first 22 titles from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The European premiere of UK director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Tilda Swinton, her daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke, and the world premiere of Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money are among the titles confirmed today.
The line-up also includes the directing debuts of actors Jonah Hill (Mid90s) and Alexander Gorchilin (Acid), and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed a large selection of movies for its Panorama strand. Section head Paz Lázaro and co-curator and programme manager Michael Stütz have revealed 22 titles, 14 of which will be world premieres.
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.
Panorama Films:
37 Seconds – Japan
by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)
with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya
World premiere – Debut film
Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Dafne – Italy
by Federico Bondi
with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, “mid90s,” about a 13-year-old skateboarder’s coming of age, and a documentary on influential film critic Pauline Kael are among the works that will screen in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.
“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
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