Although few South African film productions are known outside South Africa itself , many foreign films have been produced about South Africa . Arguably , the most high-profile film portraying South Africa in recent years was '' District 9 '' . Other notable exceptions are the film '' Tsotsi '' , which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 , as well as '' U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha '' , which won the Golden Bear at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival . In 2015 , the Oliver Hermanus film '' The Endless River '' became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival
78th Academy Awards
78th Academy Awards
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