queer film Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/queer-film/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:24:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png queer film Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/queer-film/ 32 32 SKEEF queer doccie to shine at kykNET Silwerskermfees 2019 https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/08/05/skeef-queer-doccie-to-shine-at-kyknet-silwerskermfees-2019/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/08/05/skeef-queer-doccie-to-shine-at-kyknet-silwerskermfees-2019/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:47:53 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=95937 Queer stories are set to shine at the kykNET Silwerskermfees 2019 film festival with Skeef: Die dokumentêr, a riveting local documentary about the realities of being LGBTI+ in South Africa.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/08/05/skeef-queer-doccie-to-shine-at-kyknet-silwerskermfees-2019/feed/ 0 Lesbian film Rafiki smashes Kenya’s box office https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/04/lesbian-film-rafiki-smashes-kenyas-box-office/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/04/lesbian-film-rafiki-smashes-kenyas-box-office/#respond Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:39:13 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=89075 The temporarily unbanned lesbian love story Rafiki was the top film in Kenya during the week it was allowed to be screened.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/04/lesbian-film-rafiki-smashes-kenyas-box-office/feed/ 0 Inxeba censorship | The battle is not over yet https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/30/inxeba-censorship-the-battle-is-not-over-yet/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/30/inxeba-censorship-the-battle-is-not-over-yet/#respond Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:36:12 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=85391 Despite this week’s ruling confirming that the acclaimed Inxeba should not have been classified as X-rated, cultural traditionalists say they will continue to try to have the film banned. On Thursday, the Pretoria High Court handed down its final ruling on the Film and Publications Board Appeals Tribunal’s February decision to re-rate the film as X18. […]

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/30/inxeba-censorship-the-battle-is-not-over-yet/feed/ 0 Judge: Inxeba is not porn, but violates rights of Xhosa people https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/28/judge-inxeba-is-not-porn-but-violates-rights-of-xhosa-people/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/28/judge-inxeba-is-not-porn-but-violates-rights-of-xhosa-people/#respond Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:31:05 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=85294 The Pretoria High Court has handed down its final ruling on attempts to classify controversial South African film Inxeba as X-rated, and it’s a decidedly mixed outcome. Importantly, Judge Joseph Raulinga found that the Film and Publications Board Appeals Tribunal’s decision to rate the film as X18, effectively barring the gay love story from cinemas, was […]

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/28/judge-inxeba-is-not-porn-but-violates-rights-of-xhosa-people/feed/ 0 Kenya’s banned ‘Rafiki’ to close off Durban International Film Fest https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/13/kenyas-banned-rafiki-to-close-off-durban-international-film-fest/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/13/kenyas-banned-rafiki-to-close-off-durban-international-film-fest/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:58:10 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=84629 Kenyan LGBT love story, Rafiki, has been announced as the closing film at the 2018 Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) in July. Rafiki is a movie based on the award-winning short story, Jambula Tree by Monica Arac de Nyeko. It is a coming of age film about two Kenyan girls who fall in love and […]

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