Director : Andy Botelle
Mamokobo Video & Research
1999, english, 53 mns

Synopsis
This true story follows the journey of a sacred stone belonging to the Kwanyama people of northern Namibia and southern Angola. Passed down from generation to generation, this sacred power stone has remained at the centre of the Kwanyana Kingdom, until the last Kwanyama king, Mandume, was killed in 1917. After the king’s death, the stone disappeared.

This documentary takes us on a quest to find the power stone. “Part One: When We Were Kings” traces the stone’s migration through precolonial Africa and witnesses the rise and fall of the Kwanyama kingdom. “Part Two: Africa Gets Light and Security” examines the effects of colonialism on the kingdom and follows the stone’s secret journey to Europe during the war against apartheid until its remarkable return home after Namibia’s independence in 1990.
Experience the history of this African kingdom as told by Kyanyma storytellers, musicians, poets and artists, and travel back intime to follow the incredible journey of their kingdom’s power stone.

Contact details
+264 81 12 84 746
andrewbotelle(at)yahoo.co.uk

Director: Philippe TalaveraOmbetja Yehinga Organisation
2007, English, 56min

Synopsis
Anthony, 19 years old and Tanya, 17 years old, have a child together. Unlike many Namibian young men, Anthony decides to take up responsibilities and look after the cild. He moves in with Tanya, drops out of school and finds casual work sweeping the streets. While is love for his baby boy grows stronger everyday, his relationship with Tanya deteriorates. Samantha, a 16 years old school girl; discovers she is pregnant after a one night stand with Musa. She is at a complete lost and needs support from her friend, Rebecca, who has a secret on her own.

Contact details
Ombetja Jehinga, 4 Babie Str, Suiderhof, Windhoek – Namibia
Tel: +264 61 254915
talavera(at)africaonline.com.na,  info(at)ombetja.org, eveash(at)gmail.com

Director : Errol Geingob
Desert film Production
2006, English/ Oshiwambo/ Damara, 117min

Synopsis
A story of love, greed, trickery and happiness. An Oshiwambo girl falls in love with a Damara boy. Yet the girl’s father has already arranged a traditional wedding for her and is not eager to accept his daughter’s wish to marry the one she is in love with.

Contact details
Errol Geingob      
Tel: +264  81 27 57 810/ +264 812818396
Tel: +264 46 510012

Director: Richard Pakleppa, production: Media Logistics Namibia (for GTZ and Goethe-Center/NADS), 2009, English, 30 min

Trailer: http://www.media-logistics-namibia.com/flv/TV_Features_Series/Preview.htm

Synopsis
"Three and half lives of Philip Wetu" is Namibia’s first interactive film, which enables audiences to guide the storyline. The film underscores the importance of responsible decision making amongst the youth, especially when it comes to having multiple concurrent partners. Philip Wetu – a young and attractive IT professional – is a player, with a steady girlfriend and a string of other women. When he learns that one of his sexual partners might be HIV positive, he has to make some tough choices or lose everything that he holds dear.

Contact details
Richard Pakleppa: richardpakleppa(at)dsl.pipex.com
Media Logistics Namibia cc
Tel: +264 61 24 72 31, Fax: +264 61 247 975
P.O.Box 9051, Windhoek, Namibia
m.bauer(at)media-logistics-namibia.com, gtz_hiv(at)iway.na
www.media-logistics-namibia.com

Director: Philippe Talavera, production: Ombetja Yehinga Organisation, 2008, English, 89 min

Synopsis
On the 18th of September 2006, Susan Njikata (Loide Imasa), a student at the University of Namibia, goes to Club X’tazy with her friend, Caroline (Grace Swartbooi), Caroline’s boyfriend, Coliin (Ebenezer !Naruseb) and his friends Paul (Barnabas Ochurub), Ben (Bergo van Wyk) and Dave (Mathew Murumbua). But the evening turns into a nightmare and in the early hours of the 19th of September, she is brutally gang-raped. Or, is she making up a story to get access to medication after having engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse with two men and maybe even to justify failing her second year to her parents? From the Women and Child Protection Unit to the Court, those involved in the case will try to understand what happened to Susan that night.

Also starring Lize Ehlers, Norman Job, Dawie Engelbrecht, Tanya Terblanche, Dudley Vialt and Elize de Wee, A Crack in the wall is just not a story of a thrilling court case, but the adds a rape victim has to deal with.

Contact details
talavera(at)africaonline.com.na, talavera_aol(at)africaonline.com.na, eveash(at)gmail.com

Director: Virginia Witts, production: Clever Clogs Productions, in collaboration with African Renaissance Productions and Mafisa Media, 2008, English, 24 min

Synopsis
This film offers an intriguing yet compellingly fresh approach on a subject we all will deal with at one point or another but try and ignore for better part of our lives: disposal of our mortal remains.

Contact details
Virginia Witts
Tel: +264 811285915

Director: Simon Wilkie, production: Breaking the Wall of Silence, 2003, English, 53 min

Synopsis
Testimony is a story of courage and endurance - of four people who were detained, tortured and imprisoned for years in underground dungeons by the liberation movement they had joined to free their country - Namibia.
In the late 1970s, many Namibians went into exile to take up arms against the South African occupation. But the liberation movement South West African Peoples Organization, SWAPO, in exile was rent by division and insecurity. In a climate of fear stories of South African spies abounded. As a result, the liberation movement detained and tortured many of the exiles until they confessed to being South African enemy agents.

Pauline Dempers, Dean Waggie, Ben Gowiseb and Sam Thomas tell the story of exile, torture, imprisonment and final release. Their testimony is a tribute to those who never came home. As members of the Breaking the Wall of Silence Movement, they intend to hold the culprits accountable, in search for reconciliation, truth and justice.

Contact details
Breaking the Wall of Silence Movement
PO Box 40587, Ausspannplatz Windhoek, Namibia
bws(at)iway.na

Directors: Klaus-Dieter Gralow, Roger Pitann, Hans Thull, 2006, 90 min

Synopsis
What has happened with the so called “GDR-kids”? Former “GDR-children” speak about themselves, about eleven years of their life in East-Germany, fifteen years in Namibia, about their home country and their family. Politicians, educators, teachers and adoptive parents from the GDR and from Namibia comment the political background of this time.

Contact details
Klaus-Dieter Gralow
Hauptstr. 60, 23996 Bad Kleinen/Germany
Tel: 0049 (0) 38 423 50085
KDGralow(at)gmx.net

Director: Thorsten Schütte, 2005, English, 92 min

Synopsis            
15 years after the end of Apartheid in Namibia. For the first time a multi ethnic school class is preparing for the final exams in a former white elite school of German origin. This first post-apartheid-generation knows segregation only from history books. But still it is a long way to overcome the shadows of the past.

NAMIBIA – GENERATION X tells the story of a new generation of black and white Namibians in disrupted black and white community. Young people, who are trying to handle the burdens of the past and who are seeking to define their identity amidst times of cultural and political upheaval.

Contact details
Thorsten Schütte
Schlossstrasse 69, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel: +49-177-5969283
thorsten.schuette(at)filmakademie.de

Director: Hidipo Nangolo, production: 3rd Eye Production, 2008, English, 56 min

Synopsis
Witnesses and accomplices recall the glorious days of Township Jazz in Namibia’s shanty town. J. A. Mureko formed the first known band and influenced a whole generation of musicians. His myth is revealed in tales still echoing in a generation of musical instrument players, citing him as their teacher. Music was all that was left in the midst of the harsh realities of segregation. Township jazz subculture disappeared by 1975. Filmmaker Hidipo Nangolo retraces the legends of township jazz, reuniting six musicians after 35 years.

Contact details
3rdeye(at)iway.na

Director: Kelly Kowalski, production: Terraplane Production, Mamokobo Production, 2003, English, 60 min

Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/7971574

Camera: Eran Tahor, Andy Botelle, Guy De Lancey, Marius Scriven; edit by Kelly Kowalski, Guy De Lancey, Greg Shaw; sound: Steph Albertyn, Kelly Kowalski, Manuel Jacobs; support: Ford Foundation

Synopsis
As the last African country to gain independence in 1990, Namibia opted for democratic rule. Twelve years on, how have the abstract concepts of 'Independence' and 'Democracy' taken root in Namibia's urban landscape?

Contact details
andrewbotelle(at)yahoo.co.uk

Director: Joel Haikali, 2003, Kwanyama/English, 30 min
Starring: Joel Haikali, Evelyn Ashipala, Kibi Tsuses, Patrick Kamati, Vincent Mwemba

Synopsis
From one moment to the next young Pandu gets kicked out of his uncle’s house, loses his girlfriend and the life he had. The dynamic zero budget drama the Cul de Sac takes the audience on the turbulent journey of a young black Namibian, who has to survive in Windhoek city and find his way against all odds.

Contact details
Joelhaikali(at)yahoo.com

Director: Joel Haikali, 2004, English / Afrikaans, 29 min

Starring: Marlise Marton, David Dumeni, Albert Ricket, Ananias Nuule, Asser Kauazunda,  Sasha O. Simpson, Kaudife

Synopsis
The life of young Jackson, living in Katutura, taking care of his family with low paid occasional jobs, changes forever when he ends up in the wrong white neighborhood, helping someone in need. This Nigerian style drama is a portrayal of Namibian post apartheid society having to deal with racism, stereotypes and the separation between the rich and the poor.

Contact details
Joelhaikali(at)yahoo.com

Director: Oshosheni Hiveluah, English, 12 min
Starring: Desré Christian, Marc Chiyzuka, Audrey Mootseng

Synopsis
Tulila meets Jack, whom she believes to be the man of her dreams. He fills her heart with promises of reuniting in the harbor town where he works at sea. They spend a passion filled night together and a couple of months later Tulila discovers that she is pregnant. She goes on her first journey out of her hometown to search for him. Along the trip she meets a young lady who instills some confidence into her naive character. In the harbor town she discovers that that the address Jack gave her is a fluke and she has to make decisions about growing up and learn to make some tough choices.

Contact details
o.hiveluah(at)media-logistics-namibia.com, oshosheni(at)webmail.co.za

Director: Natangwe Jimmy, executive producer: Paul van der Veur, 2006, English, 26 min
Funded by The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Synopsis
Elisabeth is sharing her story, how she lives with HIV and how she decided to help people who feel guilty for being HIV+.

Contact details
Tel: +264 81 2272456

Director: Tim Huebschle, Namibia 2006, Documentary, English, 43 min

Synopsis
Etosha National Park, Namibia's premier wildlife park and tourism hot spot, celebrates its centenary on March 22nd 2007. 'Chums' as the original inhabitants, the Heikum San, call it, mesmerizes and hypnotizes the human spirit through its massive waterless saline pan, formed, according to local lore, when the tears of a Heikum mother, who lost her child, evaporated.

Contact details
Tim Hübschle
Tel: +264 812857277
namcine(at)gmail.com

Director: Tim Huebschle, 2006-2009, English, 26 min

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MpVmA4vyiE

Synopsis
The story revolves around the Reiter (German for Rider) of the Rider Monument in Windhoek - one of Namibia’s most prominent historical monuments - coming to life and being confronted with his own identity.

In a funny but serious tale, the Reiter’s journey takes him through a changed world, as he stumbles upon the 18th Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital. The Reiter finds himself confronted by a modern reality. He has to deal with mixed race couples, rude taxi drivers, obnoxious prostitutes and drag queens and finally black men in uniforms. All the Reiter longs for is something familiar. And this will lead to his entanglement in a Herero protest march against the signing of a Namibian-German development treaty at the Alte Feste. His experiences of today’s social and political realities make him question what he really stands for. With a simple gesture the Reiter manages to turn around the meaning of the monument - making a positive statement for Namibia’s future!

Other Short Films
Afroshine - Ti Mama
Afroshine - Hope
Lady May - Chocola
Gazza - Mokasie
EES ft. PDK - U my Lady Beef

Contact details
Tim Hübschle
namcine(at)gmail.com

Short Film Collection
Directors: Joel Haikali, Tim Huebschle, Perivi Katjavivi, 2008, English

Synopsis
Under the theme "18 years in Windhoek", three young Namibian film makers set out to explore the changes since Namibia's independence in 1990 - with three very different results, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always personal and at the same time universal.

Joel Haikali - "Differences"
In "Differences" the idyllic lives of three meticulous Windhoek office workers, one black, one colored, one white, is disturbed, when they suddenly wake up next to their colleague's wife one morning. This satiric short film challenges the social reality of segregation based on alleged cultural, racial and ethnic differences, which Namibian society still faces 18 years after independence.

Perivi John Katjavivi - "The Shop"
A poignant look at independent Namibia from the street level up, as the same Windhoek convenience store shop with the same white shop assistant gets depicted during three different periods of independent Namibia. At the core the film explores our inability to communicate effectively as a society, but also reflects the current economic difficulties with escalating food prices and social deprivation.

Tim Hübschle - “Rider without a Horse“
The story revolves around the Reiter (German for Rider) of the Rider Monument in Windhoek - one of Namibia’s most prominent historical monuments - coming to life and being confronted with his own identity. In a funny but serious tale, the Reiter’s journey takes him through a changed world, as he stumbles upon the 18th Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital. The Reiter finds himself confronted by a modern reality. He has to deal with mixed race couples, rude taxi drivers, obnoxious prostitutes and drag queens and finally black men in uniforms. All the Reiter longs for is something familiar. And this will lead to his entanglement in a herero protest march against the signing of a Namibian-German development treaty at the Alte Feste. His experiences of today’s social and political realities make him question what he really stands for. With a simple gesture the Reiter manages to turn around the meaning of the monument - making a positive statement for Namibia’s future!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MpVmA4vyiE

Contact details
Joel Haikali: Tel: +264 81 256 0283, Joelhaikali(at)yahoo.com
Perivi John Katjavivi: Tel: +264 81 81 3817938, pkproduktions(at)gmail.com 
Tim Hübschle: Tel: +264 812857277, namcine(at)gmail.com

Director: Vickson Hangula, production: Home Brewed Production, 2008, English, 21 min

Synopsis
At the tender age of 17 Livey Van Wyk Samaria, a young Namibian girl is pregnant and HIV positive. Life has dealt this young individual a shocking blow. Is this fair? Has her world come to an end?

The story takes the viewer through an emotional and dramatic journey of a remarkable human being who recovers from this early set back in her life. Against all odds she fights back showing signs of human resilience, willpower, determination, bravery and above all the goodness of humanity as she gives HIV/AIDS a human face.

“My Bittersweet Life With HIV” is a 21 minutes long piece driven by a commentary by Livey Van Wyk Samaria and shows the present day and life of Livey. The documentary follows her in her private environment as she lives positively as well as her life as a motivational HIV/AIDS speaker and the impact that her story and book has made on communities.

Contact details
Vickson Hangula
Tel: +264 813964076
vickson(at)iway.na

Director Vickson Hangula, production: Home Brewed Production, 2008, English, 24 min

Starring Inyemba Kamwl, Tuwilica Kahuika, Muhinda Kaura

Synopsis
An intricate plot woven through the lives of three young people, “Between Friends” tells the story of two young women who try to make a living from a small hair salon. Queenie, the bubbly extrovert, dreams of love and “happily ever after” with Desmond, while Kiito needs to provide financially for her sick father and younger siblings in the rural parts of Namibia. Realizing the financial predicament of the two women, Desmond exploits the situation. He manipulates Queenie into having unprotected sex with him and offers financial assistance to Kiito, after which he coerces her into having casual sex with him. Queenie finds out about this, and now the question is: will the friendship of these two young women withstand the betrayal of their trust? Is Desmond able to play them off against each other and get away with it? “Between Friends” deals with the age-old question of trust and friendship amongst women, in the current era of risk to contracting HIV. The production of the documentary is by Home Brewed Productions, for Positive Support Services.

Contact details
Vickson Hangula
Tel: +264 813964076
vickson(at)iway.na 

Director: Vickson Hangula

Starring: Frieda Karipi as Kauna, Naomi Boys as Priscilla, Frederick Philander as Principal, Cloete Laurenda Olivier-Samson as Mrs. Madjiet, Sasha Olivier-Samson as Stella

Synopsis
Set in a local high school in Katutura, Windhoek’s township, ‘Kauna’s Way’ is about two school girls pitted against each other in a scholarship competition. Priscilla comes from a caring and loving family, while Kauna is by all account the breadwinner and caretaker to her younger siblings doing all the cooking, cleaning and other chores. When the scholar- ship becomes Kauna’s desperate means to escape her life of drudgery, she is willing to sacrifice her friendship and even herself.

Contact details
Vickson Hangula
Tel: +264 813964076
vickson(at)iway.na

Director: Klaus-Dieter Gralow, Roger Pitann, Hans Thull

Synopsis
Sand covers cultures, burying the history of their creators, their everyday life and their art. Evidence of the distant past is sparse, but a few clues survive in hidden places.

Let’s go back to july, 1969. The world is focused on the Apollo 11 mission while in the South of Namibia, an archeological excavation commences.
In a Hunsberg cave, Dr W. E. Wendt, the experienced prehistorian, examines Africa’s most ancient art.

This film re-explores the tracks of his 1969 expedition and shows a formidable collection of rock art sites and the impressive landscape of dunes and rocks.

Contact details
Klaus-Dieter Gralow
Hauptstr. 60, 23996 Bad Kleinen/Germany
Tel: 0049 (0) 38 423 50085
Mail: KDGralow(at)gmx.net