Teboho Edkins

Teboho Edkins

Biography

Teboho Edkins was born in 1980 in Tennessee, USA, and grew up in Lesotho and South Africa. He now lives in Cape Town and Berlin. He studied photography and fine art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, as well as film at the Le Fresnoy school of contemporary art in Tourcoing, France. This was followed by a degree in directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). His films have been shown at over 500 festivals (including in Berlin and Rotterdam), as well as at group and solo exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. His film SHEPHERDS won first prize at the Oberhausen short film festival in 2020. Teboho Edkins won Best Documentary at the El Gouna Film Festival 2020 in Egypt for his film DAYS OF CANNIBALISM. He is presenting this film in Cologne, as well as his most recent short film THE ORPHANAGE about a Buddhist orphanage in Lesotho.

Filmography

DAYS OF CANNIBALISM (2020): Guest, Direction

THE ORPHANAGE (2020): Direction