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Once again, Ian Gabriel, director, together with his son Gabe, writer and the main actor, have made a road trip/ drag movie that has some of the best lines I have heard in a movie for a long time, Extremely entertaining, River(Gabe ) reluctantly accompanies father Varun played by actor ( Ace Bhatti who starred in Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury’s father), on a road trip to rescue Varun’s ex

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This film takes us through a journey of one of the greatest ultra-marathon races of all time, and one of the oldest. The 100th anniversary was celebrated in 2021. it has grown to an average of 15,000 participants each year. The film is based on the 2022 Marathon with 13,000 runners. The race alternates each year from Pietermaritzburg – Durban and vice versa. Since Durban is at the coast and

MUSIC IS MY LIFE is an epic film created over several years covering the life of singer and founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Dr Josef Shabalala. It encompasses his life, from his early years in rural South Africa as a farmhand at the age 6 with almost no schooling to the height of his global success and his passing in 2020 at the age of 79. The film speaks to