Michelle Scott

Clay Classics: The Velveteen Rabbit

Lindsay Van Blerk

Michelle Scott, Ronald France

Using vivid clay animation, this adaptation of the classic children's book is a feast for the eyes. Although the velveteen rabbit is the favorite plaything of a young boy, the more modern, mechanical toys hold the stuffed bunny in contempt … except the rabbit's single friend, the skin horse, who has become real. As the horse explains the mystery of how to become real, a fable about the transforming power of love and imagination unfolds.

The First Christmas

Lindsay Van Blerk

Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Ellenbogen

The story of the birth of Christ brought to life in this claymation short film.

Windstil

Greg Bakker

Morné Visser, Michelle Scott

A family man, struggling to maintain his status as patriarch, finds himself infected by the insecurities of his wife leading to devastating consequences and tragedy.

Jimmy in Pienk

Hanneke Schutte

Louw Venter, Tinarie Van Wyk-Loots

Jimmy in Pienk is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation "mielie" farmer. Jimmy’s father suddenly dies in a freak accident, he is confronted by two loan sharks who come to collect what his father owes. Jimmy gathers the courage to leave his home and travel to Cape Town to seek help from his uncle, and he is not prepared for what awaits him.

Beauty

Oliver Hermanus

Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan

François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.

Cut-Out Girls

Nicola Hanekom

Joel Rosenblatt, Ashleigh van der Hoven

Kevin and Mike are young men trying to get ahead in the competitive world of tennis. When one of them discovers a dangerous key that can unlock their potential, things get out of hand. Their worlds become intertwined and spiral out of control. A small series of seemingly insignificant moments weave together with devastating consequences.

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove

Will Geiger

Beau Bridges, Bindi Irwin

After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy--and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.

Ein Sommer in Kapstadt

Imogen Kimmel

Rebecca Immanuel, Teresa Weißbach

The Chimes

Lindsay Van Blerk

Cindy Harrison, Derek Jacobi

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.