https://mrqe.com Wed, 13 May 2026 10:04:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/friends-m100011018/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/friends-m100011018/ The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/sophiatown-m100068656/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sophiatown-m100068656/ Little Bird’s first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950’s in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg’s own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/malunde-m100034682/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/malunde-m100034682/ Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa), a young black street kid who clings to memories of his family, come together to take on the society that has cast them aside and eventually build a friendship for the ages.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/cry-the-beloved-country-m100019059/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/cry-the-beloved-country-m100019059/ A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/mapantsula-m100005293/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/mapantsula-m100005293/ Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-pennywhistle-blues-m100021138/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-pennywhistle-blues-m100021138/ In a black township in South Africa, a stolen treasure chest passes from hand to hand until it is finally returned to its original owner.

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