The Zama Zama Project is an experimental documentation of ruinous postindustrial mining life in southern Africa. It is also an act of witnessing. The men and women of The Zama Zama Project are the forgotten, the ghosts in the machine of modern extractivism, the scavengers of its extravagant waste. They are also the authors of the stories told to Rosalind Morris, and form the co...
Two storylines involving artists in lockdown intersect in this South African drama about creativity, mindfulness and wellbeing. Jabu is an ambitious auteur plagued by demons, who accepts a place on the jury at a film festival in Johannesburg so he can be closer to his young son. He has been clean for months now, and is working on the side as part of the scriptwriting team for t...
曼托亚是一位生活在莱索托的80岁寡妇。她知道自己时日无多，开始为自己的葬礼做准备，向她的人生彻底告别。然而此时，她的村庄因水库建设，面临着被迫搬迁的命运。这点燃了曼托亚的生存意志。为了家园，这位将死的老妇将抗争到底。
1990年，一艘巨大的飞船出现在地球上空，人们惶恐不安，却又分外好奇。经过一段时间紧张的等待，外星飞船始终没有动静。人类终于小心翼翼靠近它，强行走进舱内，结果发现了不计其数的外星人。他们形容丑陋，宛如虾子，而且健康状况极差，虚弱无力。原来这是一群来自外星的难民，他们最终被地球人接纳，并隔离在南非约翰内斯堡的一片区域内生活，此地名为“第九区”。经过长达20年的繁衍，外星难民的数量扩张至180万之多，且和周边人类的矛盾冲突不断，越来越多的人类呼吁将“大虾”赶出地球。
MNU（列国同盟组织）经过磋商，决定将外星难民迁移到更为偏远的区域。MNU外星事务部门的特工威库斯（Sharlto Copley 饰）专门负责搬迁工作。威库斯在动员过程中傲慢随意，与当地居民冲突频频。最终，他为自己的行为付出代价，外星人的神秘流体将其感染，威库斯慢慢变成了外星人的模样……
