Films by Teboho Edkins

Südafrika, Germany 2015, 63 min
by Teboho Edkins

Coming Of Age is a film that follows teenagers over two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Very little happens in their Ha Sekake village, but from their perspective, a lot is at stake. Lefa, who wears her heart on her sleeve, sees her world fall apart when her best friend Senate leaves the village. She too must decide whether to stay or leave in search of a better education and new opportunities. Retabile takes care of the family’s livestock up in a remote cattle post, for eight months of the year, helped by his younger brother Mosaku. He watches as the elder brother goes through a rite of passage into adulthood. The summer of youth is quickly over, doors into adulthood open and close.

Germany 2011, 54 min
by Teboho Edkins

In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world's most violent and unequal societies, a young white film student sets out with his cameraman, leaving the comfort of his protected neighbourhood. He wants to make a Gangster Film, with real gangsters.After a lengthy search for a suitably 'cinematic' character, he finds the perfect gang and settles into their everyday rhythm. The reality soon catches up and the claustrophobic gangster life doesn’t exactly fit to the expectations.20 year after the first democratic election, South Africa remains a deeply divided society, one in which dialogue and understanding seem impossible, out of reach.It is a film between fiction and reality, where real truths are revealed and fiction stops being fiction, and when it stops mattering.with: Thurston Moses, Tammy Miosha Rass, Teboho Edkins, Ralf 'Jackals' Peterson, Yousi, Ouma, Nasheed, Nathen ‘Snap’ Louw & Gang, Mr. Jackson, Kevin, 'Kuifie’ and Friends & the Kids at Fire