The Vancouver South African Film Festival is proud to present features and documentaries that explore the culture, history and politics of South Africa – films that inspire, inform, and entertain. The festival is the most significant festival of South African films held anywhere outside of South Africa.

Today, a quarter of a century later, the results of South Africa’s dramatic transition are complex, and often less than straightforward. 

This year VSAFF presents a number of films that unpack some of the ways South Africa has changed.  We’re calling it: 25 Years Later – The New Reality.  

Some of our films bear directly on the theme: Whispering Truth To Power; Someone To Blame – The Ahmed Timol Inquest; Becoming Visible; Siyabonga; and Sisters of the Wilderness.  Each of these explores the new South Africa in a completely different way.  Not one is a preachy polemic.  Instead, each looks carefully, thoughtfully and creatively at an aspect of contemporary life.

Join us for a three-day celebration of South African film! All proceeds from the festival go to support Education without Borders to provide educational opportunities for disadvantaged and at-risk children through initiatives in South Africa and Canada.

For more info and full line up, visit vsaff.org