Local movies to stream now, from Showmax #1s to Durban Film Fest winners to box office hits
Sons of the Sea, named Best South African Film at the 2021 Durban International Film Festival, is set in a small fishing community on the outskirts of Cape Town. SAFTA Best Actor winner Roberto Kyle (Leeroy in Arendsvlei) stars as Gabriel, who discovers a dead body and two bags of valuable abalone.
Sons of the Sea is the debut film from writer-director John Gutierrez, who edited the Grammy-winning Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream, as well as music videos for the likes of Beyoncé.
SAFTA winner Brendon Daniels (Skemerdans, Four Corners), Nicole Fortuin (Indemnity, Flatland) and Marlon Swarts co-star.
Directed by Black Brain Films co-founder Mandla N (2021 SAFTA winners Loving Thokoza and Lockdown), Meet Melusi went straight to the top of Showmax’s movies chart on its release and is currently in second place, sandwiched between the international blockbusters 007: No Time To Die and Godzilla Vs Kong. It’s already getting five star reviews, with Daily Sun calling Meet Melusi a
“touching but funny movie…”
After losing everything when he’s accused of bribery, Aubrey discovers what fatherhood means when he’s introduced to a 16-year-old boy he is told is his illegitimate son.
Four-time SAFTA winner and Monte-Carlo Golden Nymph nominee Mothusi Magano (Blood Psalms, The Lab, Emoyeni) stars as Aubrey, alongside triple SAFTA winner Linda Sebezo (Lockdown, Gauteng Maboneng, Isibaya), SAFTA winner Kenneth Nkosi (Reyka, Five Fingers To Marseilles, Tsotsi), award winner Nqobile ‘Nunu’ Khumalo (Nqobile, Scandal) and Lungile Radebe (DiepCity).
The third most popular movie at the South African box office in 2021, Kaalgat Karel follows a hapless streaker who must find a way to bare his soul rather than his backside in a bid to win the heart of a strait-laced single mom.
The romcom stars Francois Jacobs (Vir die Voëls) and SAFTA nominee Christia Visser (Fynskif, Tess), alongside the likes of SAFTA-winning comedians Schalk Bezuidenhout (Kanarie, Hotel) and Siv Ngesi (Blood Psalms, Tali’s Baby Diary, DAM, Still Breathing).
Kaalgat Karel is co-written and directed by Meg Rickards, with Paul Egan co-writing and producing. Rickards and Egan are the team behind the SAFTA-nominated film Tess and Durban International Film Festival Audience Award-winning documentary 1994: The Bloody Miracle.
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