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The Resonance Archive Festival returns from 25 to 29 November 2026, in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Qonce, under the theme Counter-narratives of Commemoration. Through film, performance and conversation, the festival asks who writes those versions of the past, whose stories they leave out, and what becomes possible when those stories are told on their own terms. At the centre of the festival are rare South African films that have been tracked down in forgotten archives and digitised so audiences can see them again, some for the first time.
SEE THE FULL PROGRAMME FOR THE BIOSCOPE HERE.
AND SHE DIDN’T DIE
Dir. Kethiwe Ngcobo * 1h43min
A portrait of the writer and resistance fighter Lauretta Ngcobo, seen through the eyes of her daughter, Kethiwe. Weaving together home videos, archive material, interviews, readings and re-enacted scenes, the film was a decade in the making. Winner of the Ronelle Loots Award for Best Editing at Encounters, with an international premiere at IDFA 2025.