Zamo Mkhwanazi
Courtesy LAUNDRY (2025)
Zamo Mkhwanazi is a South African filmmaker born in Durban and raised in Umlazi. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, Zamo is known for her lyrical, character-driven work that centers the lived experiences of everyday people caught in extraordinary circumstances.
Her short film Philia marked her directorial debut in 2011. She followed this with The Call, which premiered at Clermont-Ferrand and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her Cannes Directors’ Fortnight debut came with Red Rooster (Gallo Rojo), and she was later selected for both the Toronto Talent Lab (2016) and Berlinale Talents (2017). Her latest short film Sadla premiered at Sundance in 2020.
In apartheid South Africa, a young man's aspirations as a musician clash with preserving his family's laundry business amid intensifying racial discrimination against Black entrepreneurs.
A teen boy runs errands while being followed by various figures of authority. As he shares his experience with friends, this tense and controlled drama deftly explores the cyclical effects of victimization on the wider community.
A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men fight to the death, for a kingdom dreamt up by a rooster. A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men. All seem locked in this strange architecture from a previous era. Why they cannot leave the place, we do not know. A red and a black rooster share with the men the reclusion, witnesses of a battle, an abstract war, a nightmare.
A pregnant prostitute, A taxi driver and an iPhone come together on an ordinary Johannesburg afternoon to decide the value of a life. Can two people who do not know how to love, create a home?
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