October 8, 2024
The CHR’s Documentary Film Programme, European Film Festival, and the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair, will be co-hosting a screening of The Quiet Girl, byColm Bairéad, on Tuesday 15 October at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
April 8, 2024
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening 'Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ (88 minutes, Ireland, 2019) by Adam Low on Wednesday 17 April 2024, which will be followed by a QnA with the director.
February 19, 2024
The CHR and DFA DocLOVE invite you to a free screening of award-winning Moroccan documentary, The Mother of All Lies.
August 12, 2022
A documentary feature film co-directed, co- filmed and co-produced by the CHR documentary film course convenor Francois Verster with fellow filmmaker Simon Wood, has just garnered the Best South African Documentary Award at the 2022 Durban International Film Festival.
July 13, 2022
Premesh Lalu’s documentary film, The Double Future’s of Athlone, which was sold out at the Encounters documentary film festival in Cape Town and Johannesburg, will be screened online at the Durban International Film Festival from July 21-30, 2022.
February 8, 2022
The Documentary Film Project at the CHR is key to rethinking the humanities PhD, incorporating audio-visual content into a reimagining of an aesthetic education.
May 4, 2021
The CHR is excited to share The Colonel’s Stray Dogs, a new documentary feature by Doctoral Fellow Khalid Shamis that premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Festival.
October 28, 2020
As part of the Communicating the Humanities research project, The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with film editor and CHR Artist in Residence, Khalid Shamis, and film director Sara DF De Gouvia, about their award winning film The Sounds of Masks
October 28, 2020
As part of the Communicating the Humanities research project, The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with award winning journalists and filmmakers, Richard Poplak and Dianna Neile, and producer Neil Brant, about their latest film Influence.
August 17, 2020
The New Normal Life is a film with puppetry about the pandemic, written, directed, performed, filmed and edited by the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective
October 1, 2018
This short documentary film showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection.
May 17, 2018
The CHR is pleased to announce that three documentaries produced as part of the Documentary Film course will show at this years 20th Annual Encounters South African International Film Festival.