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Cape of Good Hope Mark Bamford directs (and co-wrote) this engaging dramedy about diversity, culture, religion, and love in post-apartheid South Africa. A motley collection of fascinating characters of a variety of races populate Bamford's rough yet hopeful world, including the unlucky-in-love owner of an animal shelter (Debbie Brown), an exiled West African…    more      No Spoon - Download Traveling throughout the weird Bogi Desert on his two-legged “Vesped” and accompanied by an inscrutable floating fish, Jasper gets a flat tire. He discovers that the place is charged with a peculiar magic and tries to apply it to the problem of the puncture. Through a series of switches, bangs and bizarre manifestations he muddles to…    more      Right of Passage - Download Trapped and alone in the basement of the mysterious crumbling House of Ma-Chi, Jasper meets the Computoaster, a well-meaning and quirky mechanical info-center on legs. It calculates answers by shunting beads and popping iconic replies on cards. They get off to a shaky start when Jasper asks the wrong question, but they get past that and…    more      Stander Unfolding with the speed and rhythm of an action movie and showcasing stylistic flourishes that hint at Quentin Tarantino, STANDER takes on one of history's most infamous injustices with a surprising amount of humor and vivacity. Set in 1976, the film tells the true story of Andre Stander, a young police captain in Johannesburg, South…    more