This penetrating coming-of-age personal essay on love and what it means to become human in the context of race explores the memories and experiences of Milisuthando Bongela, who grew up within apartheid without knowing it was happening until it was over.

Bongela was born to a loving middle-class Xhosa community in the Transkei — an unrecognized state that was formulated out of the separate development dream of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Transkei was designed to raise some denizens on a diet of suggestions that they did not experience the ills of apartheid, and though it was dissolved after the fall of apartheid, it left behind bewildered memories in those who built their lives inside the regime’s sordid social experiment.

Milisuthando elucidates that apartheid was something that was done to all of us. Bongela invites the audience in as she plumbs the anatomy of race as bequeathed to us by our ancestors and explores what roles our ancestors play in how we create our personhood.

African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe was the first black tennis player to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. This short film explores the legacy he paved during apartheid South Africa, and its modern-day impact on a tennis centre he erected in the Soweto township. We are introduced to Amu, a young tennis player from the centre, who wins a prestigious tennis scholarship to one of the wealthiest private schools in the country.

Erik and Elmer Eklund live a quiet, secluded life in Porkkala, Finland. After almost eighty years together as brothers, they speak about youth, building boats, and death.

A slice of street life in South Africa’s Mdantsane township, known as the boxing mecca of South Africa, Knuckle City follows the journey of Dudu Nyakama, a down and out ageing boxer as he struggles to attain the one fight he believes will uplift his fractured family. Contending that the underbelly of the boxing world is rife with criminality, Dudu unwittingly enlists the help of his reckless but resourceful, gangster brother who's coming out of jail. Haunted by the ghost of their father, Dudu soon finds that the fight at home is far more challenging than any opponent he can possibly face in the ring.