Deceased anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s close friend Ahmed Kathrada reflects on his time spent imprisoned together with Mandela, and his 300 trips with guests to Robben Island just off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.
Copyright: Yazeed Kamaldien (2015)
Kobane, a city in Syria, has been destroyed in clashes as Islamic State fighters battle against the Kurdish military and American-led airstrikes. The result has been displacement of Syrian Kurds, many who ended up in refugee camps in Turkey. This 23-minute film reveals the situation and the impact of conflict on citizens.
Copyright: Yazeed Kamaldien (2015)
In 2010 and 2011 I lived in Yemen during the Arab Spring. In this short film I edited some of the photos and videos from the protests and my time living in the Old City of Sana’a, the country’s capital.
Copyright: Yazeed Kamaldien (2024)
The documentary film “Ons Is Wat Ons Is / We Are What We Are” was made for Artscape Theatre in Cape Town.
It focuses on Artscape’s Outreach Programme, which takes performing arts to small towns in the Western Cape province.
In this film, the town is Mamre where an organisation, Lief en Leed, works to empower persons living with disabilities. Artscape Theatre supports this organisation with its fundraising efforts towards building a centre of excellence for persons with disabilities.
This documentary film was made for The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), based in Cape Town. Its focuses on the IJR’s Women’s Election Mechanism for Peace (WEMP) programme to “promote peaceful and inclusive elections in South Africa”.
The IJR states: “WEMP seeks to enhance women’s participation in both the electoral process and conflict prevention. WEMP also recognises that women are under-represented in leadership, especially in politics and its processes.
“Empowering women in communities to participate as monitors and advocates is an opportunity to be involved and a springboard to future leadership roles. WEMP has successfully trained 300 Peace Monitors with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). These monitors will be deployed across five provinces: Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal.”