6 December 2024
Selah (2024)
Selah earned SAFTA nominee Erica Wessels her third Silwerskerm Best Actress Award this year. The actress (who previously won for Donkerbos and Vlees van my Vlees) portrays an exhausted mother facing the trauma of postnatal depression, a colicky baby, and the unspoken realities of new parenthood.
Written and directed by SAFTA and Silwerskerm winner Brett Michael Innes (Fiela se Kind), Selah also stars SAFTA and AMAA nominee Keenan Arrison (The Fix, Binnelanders).
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