DIFF Selection 2025: THE HOME

From 1 -3 August, The Bioscope is proud to present a special selection of films from this year's Durban International Film Festival.

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THE HOME

by Jessie Zinn | 73 min

The Home weighs in as a good-humored portrait on the oldest and largest Jewish homes in South Africa as its clients kvetch about companions and battle to elect a new Resident Committee. The residents are attended – with notable affection – by carers who are mostly Xhosa-speaking Black women working on minimum wages. “The Home” works as a gentle observational comedy. But it’s also a record of a microcosmos of South Africa today, where a legacy of racial and economic segregation still lingers.