Laudo Liebenberg

An Afrikaans film. Two women, two murders. One homicide reflects the ultimate act of self-centredness, the other the greatest selfless act of them all.

Alex and Sam reconnect after a chance encounter. They imagine a fantasy life as a married couple and abandon all their responsibilities to be together. However, reality soon comes knocking.

Vanessa is forced to spend the last few days of her matric holiday with her estranged, struggling rock muso dad, Louis. During this coastal tour, Vanessa finds herself in the position of his unofficial roadie and daily sees Louis sing his heart out for a steak and beer in front of a handful of people. For the first time in years, father and daughter are honest about the past and try, along the way, in the middle of nowhere, to find each other again.

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.