Forbidden Fruit is a 2000 German/Zimbabwean short film written and directed by Sue Maluwa-Bruce, Beate Kunath and Yvonne Zückmantel.

In a rural village in Zimbabwe, a single woman, Nongoma, and her married neighbour, Tsitsi, fall in love.

[2] Forbidden Fruit won the Teddy Jury Award at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival[4] and the FEMMEDIA Prize for Best Short at the Identities Queer Film Festival in Vienna.

[1] It received a Special Jury Mention at the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in Milan.

[2] Daniel Somerville said "it may not be the best film ever made but it certainly breaks ground in a Zimbabwean context.