Inxeba
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Micro-budgets, alternative distribution and collaboration have been fast-tracked by the coronavirus crisis.
Thursday's ruling means the film's hardcore pornography classification is overturned.
Nakhane says he never expected to face death threats for playing a man in a same-sex relationship in movie 'Inxeba The Wound'.
Contralesa President Kgosi Mokoena says they will be in court on 28 March to try to block the film again.
A late night urgent attempt by the National House of Traditional Leaders to interdict the screening of the controversial movie 'Inxeba: The Wound' has failed.
Inxeba will return to cinema screens on Friday after an agreement to drop the X-18 rating on the film.
The High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday overruled the Film and Publication Board's decision to reclassify the movie to X-18.
After filing an application for an urgent interdict, the producers of the film, will ask the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to overturn its porn rating.
The Film and Publication Board's Appeals Tribunal raised the age restriction on the film last month as protesters in parts of the Eastern and Western Cape stopped screenings.
The South African Screen Federation says it will be joining producers of the film 'Inxeba' in court in an attempt to overturn its porn rating.
Stellenbosch University lecturer Wamuwi Mbao says he has seen the film and wonders what the responses to it say about South Africa’s inability to imagine homosexual men as fellow cultural beings.
Freedom of expression activist Sekoetlane Phamodi says the reclassification of 'Inxeba' is equivalent to suppressing, banning and censoring the content.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee calls out other local films which should be brought to the attention of the FPB which seems intent on saving the public from offensive and harmful material.
The FPB says the movie is not suitable for those under 18 as the initiation practices it portrays should not be viewed by minors.
The FPB Appeals Tribunal has identified four scenes in the film that could have "increased tensions in society."
Right2Know's has responded to the new X18 rating given to the movie, which means that it will not be shown in cinemas and can only be distributed from designated adult premises.
This means the movie can only be distributed from designated adult premises and can no longer be screened at cinemas.
The film ruffled feathers in some parts of the country resulting in a suspension of screenings at some cinemas in the Eastern and Western Cape due to protests.