On Film
Football on screen: documentaries and feature films about African and South African football, and the Soccer Cinema festival archive.
Photo: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Best African Football Documentaries
The best African football documentaries use the game as a way in to the social, political and cultural history around it.
South African Football Films
South African football on screen is a small but real genre, and its most verifiable titles cluster around three stories: prison resistance on Robben Island, a township child's dream of playing for…
Football on Robben Island
Robben Island inmates turned soccer into an organised act of resistance when they founded the Makana Football Association in 1966.
From the 2010 festival
Soccer Cinema Film Programme
The documentaries screened on the 2010 Soccer Cinema tour and at the Labia in Cape Town, with directors and synopses.
Soccer Cinema Tour Route
Every town and venue the travelling cinema visited in April and May 2010, province by province.
Mobile Cinema Diary
Notes from the road: village screenings from Justicia to Khubvi and the Apollo Theatre in Victoria West.