Movies: Jacques Bessenger

  • 2018
    Kanarie

    Kanarie (2018)

    Kanarie

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    Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repress...

    Kanarie
  • 2012
    Wolwedans In Die Skemer

    Wolwedans In Die Skemer (2012)

    Wolwedans In Die Skemer

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    A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also...

    Wolwedans In Die Skemer
  • 2017
    Krotoa

    Krotoa (2017)

    Krotoa

    5.92017HD

    Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East In...

    Krotoa
  • 2013
    Traitors

    Traitors (2013)

    Traitors

    8.22013HD

    During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating fur...

    Traitors
  • 2015
    Ballade vir 'n Enkeling

    Ballade vir 'n Enkeling (2015)

    Ballade vir 'n Enkeling

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    Based upon the book written by South African author Leon van Nierop, and the 1980s TV series it spawned, this drama focuses on the mysterious disappearance of celebrated writer Jacques Rynhard (Armand Aucamp), and the investigative hunt for him launc...

    Ballade vir 'n Enkeling
  • 2014
    Alles Wat Mal Is

    Alles Wat Mal Is (2014)

    Alles Wat Mal Is

    5.82014HD

    Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged their passionate relationship for a permanent seize-fire. The once uninhibited and vibrant journalist...

    Alles Wat Mal Is
  • 2016
    Blood and Glory

    Blood and Glory (2016)

    Blood and Glory

    6.32016HD

    Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defe...

    Blood and Glory
  • 2025
    Lilies Not for Me

    Lilies Not for Me (2025)

    Lilies Not for Me

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    In 1920s England, a gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse form an unlikely friendship over a series of doctor-prescribed dates....

    Lilies Not for Me
  • 2023
    Blindelings

    Blindelings (2023)

    Blindelings

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    René is a brilliant, blind pianist with synesthesia. She "sees" unique colors when experiencing music, voices and emotions, but after an assualt on the night of her first solo performance, her life changes instantly....

    Blindelings
  • 2024
    Die Kwiksilwers

    Die Kwiksilwers (2024)

    Die Kwiksilwers

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    Elsabe Marais, a widow in her 80s, and her three elderly friends embark on a hilarious road trip across the Karoo to experience a meteor shower in Sutherland. They have three days to get there, but to reach their goal in time, they will have to elude...

    Die Kwiksilwers
  • 2016
    Sink

    Sink (2016)

    Sink

    8.92016HD

    ‘Sink’ tells the story of Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker based in Johannesburg, who is forced to make a devastating choice after her daughter drowns whilst under the care of her employer; return to poverty stricken Mozambique or continue workin...

    Sink
  • 2022
    Stiekyt

    Stiekyt (2022)

    Stiekyt

    92022HD

    James is an actor with a failed career. When he is offered an opportunity to earn a little extra by performing as a drag queen at a club, he accepts. His wife finds out and a row is unavoidable. James is ready to do anything to save his marriage, to ...

    Stiekyt
  • 2023
    Riel

    Riel (2023)

    Riel

    02023HD

    Contemporary South Africa. An aging Khoekhoe matriarch invites her granddaughter to participate in the riel dance....

    Riel