Karatara selected for Thuthuka

Feature documentary Karatara has been selected in the most recent Thuthuka production fund round.

In 2023, it was announced during IFFR that the documentary had been selected for a development grant under the Thuthuka programme. Thuthuka focuses on the development and production of feature films, feature-length documentaries, or animated films with South African and Dutch-related content. These films have the potential to be of such high cinematic quality that they can appeal to wide cinema and film festival audiences in both countries.

Karatara

Director: Teboho Edkins
Producers: Muyi Salon (NL) / Day Zero Film (ZA)
Logline: In the stillness of a South African village tucked between forest and mountain, the neat lawns and quiet streets hide a restless past. Guided by forgotten photographs, the filmmaker enters a world where ghosts speak, exorcisms echo, and a slow, fragile process of decolonisation unfolds beneath the surface.
Granted support: € 100.000,-

Thuthuka is an initiative of the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and the Netherlands Film Fund to promote collaboration between South Africa and the Netherlands. A new deadline for Thuthuka will be published by the end of August.

Image: Still from Karatara