The Cape Town Design Indaba Film Festival 2015 is already upon us. Have you checked out the film schedule and bought your tickets yet?

Everything you need to know about all the movies below:

Design Indaba Festival 2015 opens with its annual 10-day celebration of creativity in film at The Labia, Cape Town’s oldest independent cinema, from 20 February to 1 March.

 Big Eyes

Tim Burton’s Big Eyes is the true story of a 1950s American scandal involving acclaimed painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) whose husband (Christoph Waltz) claimed credit for her work. What began as a love story ended in theft and lies…

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Regarding Susan Sontag

The controversial author and filmmaker Susan Sontag has been labelled “the most intelligent woman in America”. This feature-length documentary tells of the life, travels and lovers of this legendary writer, critic, activist, feminist and traveller.

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Collaborations

Made especially for the first major retrospective of David Adjaye’s career, this new documentary by Oliver Hardt offers a portrait of the British-Ghanaian architect. Get a rare look inside his private and public buildings through the narratives of those who use and live in them.

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Art and Craft

One of the 10 must-see films at Tribeca Film Festival, this is the story of one of the greatest deceptions in the art world. This documentary follows a cat and mouse chase between art forger Mark Landis and art registrar Matthew Leininger, who is consumed by the desire to expose him.

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The Salt of the Earth

Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated film The Salt of the Earth is a visual ode to photographer Sebastião Salgado. This stunning documentary chronicles the 40 years of work by the Brazilian photo-journalist, including his controversial series on famine and civil war.

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Tomorrow We Disappear

On IndieWire’s “20 Best Documentaries of 2014”, this feature-length documentary tells of the last days of Kathputli, a colony of folk artists in New Delhi. The fate of hundreds of families of Indian puppeteers, artists, magicians, acrobats, folksingers and performers hangs in the balance.

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Shake the Dust

Documenting people united in the languages of movement and hip hop, this feature film, by rapper and producer NAS, follows the influence of hip hop culture in urban communities around the world.

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Stripped

Stripped is the ultimate love letter to comic strips. This documentary features interviews with celebrated cartoonists including the notoriously media-shy Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes.

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The Newsroom – Off the Record

This English subtitled documentary invites the viewer to witness the inner workings of the “most criticised paper in Denmark”. The struggle for print editions of newspapers to stay solvent in the digital age is an old story rivetingly told from the inside of a Danish tabloid.

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Stories of Our Lives

Banned in Kenya, selling out in Berlin, about to premiere in New York and coming to Cape Town: this film by Nairobi-based arts group The Nest Collective attempts to understand what it means to be queer in Kenya where homosexuality is still illegal.

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Dior and I

This film by Frédéric Tcheng (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) transports us through rare footage right inside the fashion powerhouse. Follow creative director Raf Simons’ journey as he takes his first haute couture collection for Dior from concept to runway.

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Project Phoenix

Project Phoenix is a moving short documentary by local creative agency FoxP2. Following the journey of a former member of the Numbers Gang, it shows how creativity helped transform him from a hardened criminal into a valued member of society.

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Saint Laurent

Zoom into the lewd and lascivious lifestyle of Yves Saint Laurent. Not a classic biopic, this French documentary takes a look at the life of the designer through his atelier, his nightlife excursions, his trysts, his pill-popping binge and his opulent home.

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As always, the film festival promises to bring to Cape Town a highly curated selection of feature films and documentaries on creativity and design, many of which are premieres on the African continent.

Come to these one-night-only screenings and be inspired by the world’s best creativity in film. Also visit our website for #filmfestfridays where we feature a variety of short creative films online every week.

All tickets are R50 and films screen at 20:00 for 20:30 at the Labia.