Silwerskermfees short films: Twee persent

With: Michelle le Roux, Albert Pretorius, Susanne Beyers

In the quiet, fictional neighbourhood of Suville, Charlotte Grunewald lives according to a strict routine in her perfectly organised house, with her cat, Constantine, by her side. Everything has its place. Everything makes sense. Not even her lactose intolerance is a problem. But then the new milkman shows up: Ernest van den Burg – wide-eyed, decent, sincere and earnest. Slowly, he begins to disrupt Charlotte’s routine with inexplicable milk deliveries, despite her best efforts to ignore him. And Charlotte is confronted with her greatest fear: change. Because sometimes all it takes to turn everything on its head is a pushy but friendly stranger, a few bottles of milk and the odd slip-up here and there.

Producer: Nicholas Leighton
Production Company: SouthEaster Productions
Directors: Michelle le Roux, Heinrich Laubscher
Screenwriter: Michelle le Roux
Editor: Heinrich Laubscher
Cinematographer: Michael Ellis

The kykNET Silwerskerm Festival is a prestigious and proudly South African and Afrikaans film festival that has supported, empowered, and developed the local film industry for more than a decade. While a number of feature films from seasoned filmmakers make their world debut or South African premiere at this prestigious event, the festival is also a showcase for emerging talent: a series of short films, produced under the festival’s banner with the necessary mentorship, annually shine a spotlight on their craft.
The Film Festival proudly presents 6 short films from up-and-coming filmmakers, 4 short films from established filmmakers, and 5 short documentaries from the 2026 kykNET Silwerskerm Festival programme. More detailed information about the short films is available on our website. These short films were produced under the mentorship of kykNET and M-Net and premiered at the 2026 kykNET Silwerskerm Festival in Camps Bay.