Jacques Bessenger
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Department: Acting
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Stiekyt
Overview: James is an actor with a failed career. When he is offered an opportunity to earn a little extra by performing as a drag queen at a club, he accepts. His wife finds out and a row is unavoidable. James is ready to do anything to save his marriage, to prove that the role he has been entrusted with at the club is perfectly honourable and he is in high regard. He also has to apply his best acting skills when an investigation into the suspicious murder of the club’s diva is opened.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Traitors
Overview: During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating further in the war. The decision leads to a treason trial for him and his sons.
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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Blindelings
Overview: René is a brilliant, blind pianist with synesthesia. She "sees" unique colors when experiencing music, voices and emotions, but after an assualt on the night of her first solo performance, her life changes instantly.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Wolwedans In Die Skemer
Overview: A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also quickly discovers that family secrets and an obsession with the past haunt and control their every move. Sonja soon falls in love with the enigmatic Ryno Lategan, a tour guide who befriends her and promises to help her regain her memory. But when a vicious axe murderer starts terrorising Sonja, she realizes that she has some strange connection to this hotel in her past and that this connection could cost her her life. Things change when an eccentric investigator, Lieutenant Conrad Nolte and his assistant, Sergeant Berta van Schalkwyk, start investigating the murders at Hotel Njala and make some startling discoveries that even shock these two hardened investigators.
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Original Language: af
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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Riel
Overview: Contemporary South Africa. An aging Khoekhoe matriarch invites her granddaughter to participate in the riel dance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-30
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Alles Wat Mal Is
Overview: Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged their passionate relationship for a permanent seize-fire. The once uninhibited and vibrant journalist is now just a few fading photographs on the wall. And then, her world is shattered when Gustav apparently starts an affair with the very big investor who just might be the savior of his company – Elzaan Mostert. Enter Helena’s alter ego, the can-do, let’s-make-a-plan, nothing-is-impossible younger version of herself. Alter Ego comes up with the idea of starting a blog called Alles wat Mal is (Everything Crazy), documenting Helena’s hectic life, and her quest to win back Gustav’s affection, and put a spark back into her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Ballade vir 'n Enkeling
Overview: Based upon the book written by South African author Leon van Nierop, and the 1980s TV series it spawned, this drama focuses on the mysterious disappearance of celebrated writer Jacques Rynhard (Armand Aucamp), and the investigative hunt for him launched by journalist Carina Human (DonnaLee Roberts). Christia Visser, Rolanda Marais and Jacques Bessenger co-star.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2015-03-20
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Sink
Overview: ‘Sink’ tells the story of Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker based in Johannesburg, who is forced to make a devastating choice after her daughter drowns whilst under the care of her employer; return to poverty stricken Mozambique or continue working for the family responsible for the death of her child so she can support her extended family back home. The story is a haunting exploration of motherhood, loss and the walls that separate people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-03-18
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Lilies Not for Me
Overview: In 1920s England, a gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse form an unlikely friendship over a series of doctor-prescribed dates.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-12
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Die Kwiksilwers
Overview: Elsabe Marais, a widow in her 80s, and her three elderly friends embark on a hilarious road trip across the Karoo to experience a meteor shower in Sutherland. They have three days to get there, but to reach their goal in time, they will have to elude and outsmart her overprotective son, who is hot on their tail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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Krotoa
Overview: Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Blood and Glory
Overview: 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 prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby
Genres: History War
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Kanarie
Overview: Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2018-05-29
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