MIFF 2026 — Mpumalanga International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION · MIFF 2026

The Films

98 films from more than 25 countries — features, documentaries, shorts and animation across cinema, conference, wildlife and online programmes.

OPENING NIGHT · SUN 2 AUG

Stories That Belong, Voices That Matter — the official opening block at Ster-Kinekor Cinema 3.

Dread

Loren Loubser, Gabe Gabriel · South Africa, United Kingdom
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

VULTURES

Dian Weys · France, South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Tuskers. Saving the last gentle giants

Nick Chevallier, Leigh Wood · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

UCELIWE

Lwazi Duma · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

CINEMA · MON 3 AUG

Regional Voices & Youth-Friendly Cinema.

A Dream(Liphupho)

Siphosethu Nkosivile Sibandze · Eswatini
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Seeds We Bury

Olivia Hansen, Soledad Robins · United States
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Threading Dreams

Zane Colquhoun · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

The Path to Healing

MICHAEL D ELLIOTT · United States
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

CINEMA · TUE 4 AUG

South African Stories & Healing.

Beauty For Ashes

Federico Ancillai, Nqobile Nunu K.H · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

The Boy Behind the Wardrobe: The Story of Winston Wicomb

Albert Maritz · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Bluepill

Thubelihle Sithole · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

CINEMA · WED 5 AUG

Change, Memory & Social Impact.

A Passion's Night Bloom

Kwesi Awotwi · United Kingdom
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Indikwe - As Long as There Is Life

Indi Casadei · Switzerland
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

With Grace

Dina Mwende, Julia Dahr · Kenya, Norway
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Quantum

Nqanawe Shangase · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

THE SEX TAPE

davies Zihanzu · Zimbabwe
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Dear Sikhonkwane

Sihle Hlophe · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

CINEMA · THU 6 AUG

Inclusion, Disability & Belonging.

Where is Home?.

Lamtiar Simorangkir · Indonesia
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

RETURN TO THE LAND

Lauren Groenewald · Malawi
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Miss You in Dancing Cross-stitch

Li-Yu Fu, Vick Wang, Yi-Feng Kao · Taiwan
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

The Injustice of Justice: a Short Film Animation by Molly Crabapple and Ohio Death Row Prisoner Keith LaMar

Keith LaMar, Jim Batt, Max Boekbinder · United States
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Normal To Me

Luke Sharland · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

CINEMA · FRI 7 AUG

Filmmaking as a Career · Business & Local Showcase.

écH2osystème : From the River to the Stage

Geneviève Dupéré, Alex Côté Hallée · Canada
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

UBANI LORE?

Nqanawe Cebolenkosi Shangase · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Stolen Ground: The Tygerberg Racetrack Land Invasion

Joe Emilio · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

WILDMARKET AFRICA · SAT 8 AUG

Wildlife & biodiversity cinema at Skukuza, Kruger National Park — evening screenings open to the park audience.

The Silent Retreat

Mason Mirabile · Switzerland
Skukuza · Kruger

The Land Remembers

Nathan Rice · South Africa
Skukuza · Kruger

Zora and The Zebra

Amirah J Adem · United States
Skukuza · Kruger

UNSEEN LINE

Niklas von Klitzing, Leo Stolz · Germany
Skukuza · Kruger

The secret of the Ethiopian Wolf

Baptiste Deturche, Adrien Lesaffre · France
Skukuza · Kruger

Wild Waterfront

Marguerite Venter · South Africa
Skukuza · Kruger

Pantanal

Environmental Justice Foundation · Brazil, United Kingdom
Skukuza · Kruger

The Legacy of Megaherbivores

Tom Bouyer, Aimee Tallian · United States
Skukuza · Kruger

Elephant in the Room

Jura Bakx · Netherlands
Skukuza · Kruger

The StoryTraveller

Giovanni Costa Massa · Brazil, United States
Skukuza · Kruger

CLOSING DAY · SUN 9 AUG

Women's Day, Memory & Belonging — the closing block before the MIFF 2026 Awards.

Fractured

Katlego Evelyn Nkgodi · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Remember Their Names

Sihle Hlophe · South Africa
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

Equilibrio: The SOMA Surf Story

Ana-Filipa Domingues · Sao Tome and Principe
Ster-Kinekor Ilanga

ONLINE PROGRAMME

Streaming on the MIFF Online Screening Page throughout the festival week — every film followed by a live online Q&A.

Ultra runner vs Antelope, Persistence hunting - Myth or a Lost art

Online unless filmmaker confirms attendance · Netherlands
MIFF Online

Mama-Demic

Nicole Jacqueline Schafer · South Africa
MIFF Online

The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa

Joana Louçã, Pascoe Sabido, Belén Balanyá · Belgium
MIFF Online

Knots of Wood - Amazon Expedition

Flavio Madeira · Brazil
MIFF Online

Waterfront Memories

Marton Olympio · Brazil
MIFF Online

Tièclou - Women's Village

Victorien Vialar · Burkina Faso
MIFF Online

Brave Rebel Army

Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt · Canada
MIFF Online

DEMO DAY

Ar Ducao · Canada
MIFF Online

Amanene Beyond Voices

Maggie Mercier · Canada, South Africa
MIFF Online

Guardian of the Well

Bentley Brown, Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene · Chad
MIFF Online

ONE VISIBLE

SAADI BELGAID · France
MIFF Online

Rewilding Patagonia

Aurélie Miquel, Arnaud Hiltzer · France
MIFF Online

Magical France - From Provence to the Pyrenees

Heike Grebe, Michael Riegler · France, Germany
MIFF Online

Where Two Oceans Meet

Lulu Scott · France, New Zealand, South Africa
MIFF Online

MANGO

Joan Iyiola · France, United Kingdom
MIFF Online

Forty Days Road

Ali Ziani · Germany
MIFF Online

The Banjo Boys

Johan R Nayar · Germany, Malawi, United Kingdom
MIFF Online

Not like other trees

Lindi Dedek · Germany, Poland, Tanzania
MIFF Online

The Shadow of the Bear - A Carpathian Quest

Giannakopoulos Efstathios · Greece
MIFF Online

Let's have a cup of doodh patti chai

Brian Hung · Hong Kong
MIFF Online

The Strong Man of Bureng

Mauro Bucci · Italy
MIFF Online

Wild Alps

Daniele Gangemi · Italy
MIFF Online

Let’s go! Love Ishinomaki “United smiles across the world”

TOMOHISA ISHIGAMI · Japan
MIFF Online

MOIPONE: MARRIAGE BY ABDUCTION

Thapelo Elias Molotsi · Lesotho
MIFF Online

The Last Camp

Egor Isaev · Lithuania
MIFF Online

The Beneath

Lisette Vlassak · Netherlands
MIFF Online

Ann‘s House

Maggie Yao · New Zealand
MIFF Online

Behind The Glass

Monsurah Alli-Oluwafuyi · Nigeria
MIFF Online

Beyond Olympic Glory

Shedrack Salami · Nigeria
MIFF Online

The Peter Plan

Grzegorz Pacek · Poland
MIFF Online

Mamã Guiné

Mauricio Franco, Filipe Taslatti Mello · Portugal
MIFF Online

Wilder Côa

João Cosme · Portugal
MIFF Online

Back to the theater Vox

Amina Awa Niang · Senegal
MIFF Online

GÉEJ AMUL BAŊXAAS "At Sea, Without Support"

Ivere HOUNKPATIN · Senegal
MIFF Online

A Little Blackman from the Congo

Tshililo waha Muzila · South Africa
MIFF Online

ALEX SÜD

Bongani Baloyi, Botlhale Boikanyo · South Africa
MIFF Online

Amathambo

Sabelo Ndlovu · South Africa
MIFF Online

Breaking Free

Kopedi Aphane · South Africa
MIFF Online

Breaking Records - The Gerda Steyn Story

Sean Everett · South Africa
MIFF Online

Christopher Truter, A child of 1976

Deidré Jantjies · South Africa
MIFF Online

Discarded

Sheona Mitchley · South Africa
MIFF Online

Don't Blame The World

Darrell Roodt · South Africa
MIFF Online

Even in the Dark

Nombasa Dlwati, Thawanda Khosa · South Africa
MIFF Online

Hitman Error 404

Theodore Mitole, Amokelani Makhubela · South Africa
MIFF Online

It's History: The Oscar Gutierrez Project

Byron Loker · South Africa
MIFF Online

KYRIE

Calista Noelle Hinrichsen · South Africa
MIFF Online

Lil_ith

Robin de Jager · South Africa
MIFF Online

Livid Mortis

David Mzolo · South Africa
MIFF Online

Lost Hope

Likhona Baloni · South Africa
MIFF Online

Millennial Dad

Maishe Mosala · South Africa
MIFF Online

Mine mine!

Tirelo Rifos Mailola · South Africa
MIFF Online

Mother City

Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert · South Africa
MIFF Online

Mufunwa: Kiss of Blood

Avhatakali Edwin Maisha · South Africa
MIFF Online

On Edge

Khaya Dube, Keano Mirando · South Africa
MIFF Online

Phinda Ubuyele

Thembela Madliki · South Africa
MIFF Online

Salt Mission

Mikateko Livingstone Pule · South Africa
MIFF Online

Scorched

Nomthandazo Nkosi · South Africa
MIFF Online

Seed is life

Deidre May · South Africa
MIFF Online

Squashbox

SJ van Breda · South Africa
MIFF Online

The Discovery

Ernesto Rodriguez Cruz · United States
MIFF Online

See It On The Big Screen

Every cinema screening is followed by a 10-minute Q&A with the filmmaker. Entrance is managed per venue — RSVP for festival days and join MIFF for online access.