South African Film 'Otelo Burning' Premieres At BFI London Film Festival (Trailer + Dates)

Somewhere between ‘City of God’ and ‘Blue Crush’, ‘Otelo Burning’ is a true to life story you must see at the BFI’s London Film Festival this month. Get more listings information and watch the trailer under the hood.

 

Could this be the next Tsotsi?

Already catching some Oscar-buzz (here we go) the latest film out of South Africa, Jerusalema, deals with an issue that seems like we’ll be getting very familiar with in the next few years, it seems. Tsotsi’s are SA gangsters. The movie, which premiered to much critical fanfare at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, has obviously been compared to Gavin Hood’s Oscar-wnning Tsotsi and Martin Scorcese’s The Departed [...]