Directing

Katinka Heyns

Acting credits

The Gods Must Be Crazy poster
7.3

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980

Babbelkous poster
NR

A lawyer's receptionist is keen on detective stories and crime films. Believing her boss has been killed, she reports it to the police, but once questioned she knows all the answers about his disappearance.

Babbelkous

1974

Pappa Lap 'n Verhaal van n pa en sy dogter poster
NR

The picture explores the relationship between a poor widower and his 17-year-old daughter. She dreams of a matric farewell, the handsome boy in her class and a long, white dress. He secretly sells his beloved pigeons to make her a red dress, but in the meantime a teacher also makes Chrissie a dress: a white, elegant dress. Which one will Chrissie choose?

Pappa Lap 'n Verhaal van n pa en sy dogter

1971

Eendag op 'n Reëndag poster
NR

A man deep in debt goes to a gamblinghouse to get the money he needs to pay it of but one of his friends come along and sees that the gambler man has cheated and so he killed him

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

1975

No artwork available
10.0

A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies.

Farewell Johnny

1970

The Sergeant and the Tiger Moth poster
7.0

A young man and his girlfriend rebuild an old Tiger Moth with almost no money and parts they battle to find. Her father is totally set against this idea and does not like the boyfriend who claims to be a pilot but does not even have a proper pilot's license. To add to the intrigue, the girlfriend sells her prize white horse to get money for the parts which angers her father even more....

The Sergeant and the Tiger Moth

1974

Behind the camera

Paljas poster
7.3

Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community.

Paljas

1998

The Angel, the Bicycle and the Chinaman's Finger poster
NR

Based on Nicholas Ellenbogen's play of A Nativity, the trilingual (Afrikaans, English and Zulu) film tells a hilarious story about a government backed effort to put on a multiracial production of a play production of a nativity play by the local post office's staff in a tiny backwater village, on the eve of the new democracy.

The Angel, the Bicycle and the Chinaman's Finger

1992

Fiela's Child poster
8.0

The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life."

Fiela's Child

1988

The Miracle Worker poster
6.0

Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.

The Miracle Worker

2012

The Story of Klara Viljee poster
8.0

This affirming story of one woman's struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiance at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.

The Story of Klara Viljee

1992

Eendag op 'n Reëndag poster
NR

A man deep in debt goes to a gamblinghouse to get the money he needs to pay it of but one of his friends come along and sees that the gambler man has cheated and so he killed him

Eendag op 'n Reëndag

1975