ENCOUNTERS 2026: SHORTS BLOCK - The Body Remembers

Every year since our founding in 2010, The Bioscope has proudly hosted screenings of The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Now celebrating its 28th year as a festival, Encounters returns to The Bioscope once again with screenings at The Bioscope from 5 - 14 June. Tickets are R90. 

SEE THE FULL BIOSCOPE ENCOUNTERS PROGRAM HERE.

BONES (13PV)

Dir. Nomandla Vilakazi | South Africa | 2025 | 48 min.

Bones tells the story of Baartman’s final repatriation to South Africa in 2002, which was catalysed by a 1998 poem, “I've Come To Take You Home” by writer and activist Diana Ferrus.

Eyes to see (13)

Dir. Haneem Christian | South Africa | 2025 | 14 min.

After a life-altering accident, Dr Yvette Abrahams embarks on a healing journey through Indigenous knowledge, reimagining queerness, nature, and identity as fluid, ancestral, and interconnected.

WAT WAS HIE? (10PG)

Dir. Luke De Kock | South Africa | 2025 | 31 min.

A journey through Cape Town’s layered histories, where movement and memory reactivate landscapes marked by colonialism, slavery, and Indigenous resistance, asking what was here and what remains.