Jacques Bessenger

Kanarie (Afrikaans for ‘Canary’) is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young ...

Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a ...

Haunted by a forbidden affair, a young man in a 1920s “conversion” clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era’s cruel norms.