Zeitz MOCAA announces that the next film in the Pan-African Film Caravan screening programme is titled One Take Grace (2021), a collaboration between artist, Lindiwe Matshikiza (39), and actor and community leader, Mothiba Grace Bapela (58) which began with the two women meeting as actors on a local film set in 2010.
In this eclectic cinematic portrait of Bapela, she reflects on her extraordinary life, and searches for a way to break out of the societal roles cast for her.
Bapela recounts and performs some of her life experiences, observing and absorbing what goes on in the intimacy of other people’s homes and families—ranging from the banal to the macabre—while suppressing her own frustrated desires and trauma. Narrated by Bapela herself, it is the perspective of one who has spent the majority of her life servicing the dreams of others, attempting to use her experiences to break through to her own. Director Lindiwe Matshikiza leads a multidisciplinary creative process in producing this collaboratively-made portrait of the often precarious, sometimes miraculous position of an African female migrant worker.
The Pan-African Film Caravan screening programme is in anticipation of the moving image exhibition Turning Towards the Sun, hosted in collaboration with the African Film and Media Arts Collective (AFMAC) and BMW, Zeitz MOCAA presents the Pan-African Film Caravan. The programme highlights a range of historical and contemporary African cinematic approaches, from historical drama, new wave to surrealism, science fiction, and docu-fiction. The selection of films feature everyday narratives of queer African life, the human condition, and cultural reclamation. Turning Towards the Sun: Pan-African Film Caravan foregrounds voices from Africa and its diaspora, moving from a singular perspective to a multivocal one. In honouring the Pan-African tradition, the programme invites a wider Cape Town audience to experience films that build on the continent’s cinematic canon.
Screenings take place at the Labia Theatre every last Friday of the month from 6 pm–8 pm, May though November 2026. A communal conversation follows each screening led by the Zeitz MOCAA curatorial team.Â
WHAT: One Take Grace (2021), by Lindiwe Matshikiza & Mothiba Grace Bapela
WHERE: The Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Friday, 24 July 2026 | 6 pm–8 pm
BOOKING: Webtickets | Entry Non-members pay R30 per person | Zeitz MOCAA Members enter free with presentation of valid membership.
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