South Africa's film history is inseparable from the question of who was allowed to watch. The apartheid state paid producers out of box office takings from white cinemas, and from 1972 ran a second scheme for films in African languages, made almost entirely by white-owned companies for a separate audience — several hundred of them, most of the prints now gone. After 1994 the country got a national film foundation, an Oscar for a Johannesburg gangster, and a large service industry shooting other people's productions in Cape Town, and this shelf carries all three unevenly.