Thoko Ntshinga

Acting

Thoko Ntshinga

Born 1953-01-01 · Cape Town, South Africa

Acting credits

Dark Tide poster
4.7

A traumatized shark expert must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley."

Dark Tide

2012

A Dry White Season poster
6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

A Dry White Season

1989

English poster
8.8

A teenager tries to cope with the loss of her twin sister by running away to boarding school. There, she finds a monster not too different from the one she was escaping – but way more powerful. Will she keep running, or defeat it?

English

2020

Firstborn poster
3.3

This short film explores identity and sexuality within the Afrikaans minority culture of post-Apartheid South Africa through a fable about two brothers who descend into matricide and madness on a remote ostrich farm.

Firstborn

2009

The Queenstown Kings poster
5.8

A prodigious young soccer player from rural Queenstown must face the return of his washed-up, pro-footballer father, and navigate the choice between his team's success and his own dreams.

The Queenstown Kings

2023

The Space: Theatre of Survival poster
NR

When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of The Space theatre (a.k.a. 'The Space', 'Die Ruimte' in Afrikaans, and 'Indawo' in Xhosa).

The Space: Theatre of Survival

2019

The Bird Can't Fly poster
7.0

Melody returns to her old home to Fairlands the funeral of their daughter, June to attend. But Melody not recognize their city regains because it is almost entirely disappeared under tons of sand. She also learns that they have a 10-year-old grandson, River, has. Melody River will take into their new life, but this is fighting back. He wants to hatch the eggs of ostriches, which he has always fed with his mother. Rivers father, Scoop, a lazy musician and the man in the city post office, wants Melody leaves the city. Here are a lot of conflicts, to Melody learns the truth. But haunts as a sand storm the city, suddenly everything changes.

The Bird Can't Fly

2008

Place of Weeping poster
9.0

When a farm worker is killed a journalist working in a nearby area investigates the murder

Place of Weeping

1986

Homecoming: An African Christmas Story poster
5.5

Homecoming tells a touching story of the relationship between two sisters, Luleka and Asanda, who are called back to their rural village by their mother, Mam Nkomo. The sisters are summoned home for what may be their father, Tat Nkomo’s, last Christmas.

Homecoming: An African Christmas Story

2024