Whilst most sports movies make for fairly tedious viewing, 'Beyond the River' gives you so much more. It's more of a case of the 'haves and the have not's' and concerns a poor black man from Soweto, teaming up with a middle class white dude from 'Joburg'. Though they both have terrible problems in their lives, they compete as a double act, in the most grueling (long distance) canoe races.