Based on the 1980's real life crime story of the couple who became known as South Africa's Bonnie and Clyde, Charmaine Phillips and Pieter Grundlingh, Durban Poison tells the fictionalized story via a road trip during the police investigation, where the killing couple show the police the different murder locations of the four men they killed. The savvy police officer in charge does not believe their accounts of what took place and, through flash-backs that slowly peel away the masks to reveal the passions and wounds of Joline and Pieter, the truth finally comes out in a dramatic final beach scene.—Judy Croome

Winner of Best South African Film at the 34th Durban International Film Festival, DURBAN POISON is an expose of a relationship between two lovers whose passionate affair self-destructed; they ended up as serial-killers, South Africa's version of 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Told in flashback the film follows the culprits and the police as they return to the scenes of the crime as a method of investigation. Flitting between the present and the past, the film is a tale of murder and romance, of truth and lies so the audience isn't clear until the climax who is guilty but meanwhile have become complicit witnesses of a powerful, combustible romance.—durbanpoison