Jozi Film Festival 2020: Higher Love

The Bioscope Independent Cinema is proud to once again host the Jozi Film Festival.

Please note: The Jozi Film Festival 2020 screenings are happening at our NEW HOME at 44 Stanley, Johannesburg.

Higher Love 

Dir. Hasan Oswald

Documentary || 1h 21m || USA

~WINNER: SLAMDANCE GRAND JURY AWARD~

Blue collar worker Daryl Gant is a Camden, NJ native, a father of eight, and printing press operator. He was raised by a single mother and strives to be a better father than his own, who abandoned him at birth. His girlfriend, Nani, is the love of his life, but struggles to cope with a crippling crack and heroin addiction, and the nefarious lifestyle to support it. More troubling is that Nani is pregnant with their baby. It becomes Daryl’s new-found purpose to forge a better future for the both of them. Once their son is born, he forces her to choose between her life with her drug "family" and one with him and their child.

A damming commentary on the opioid crisis in the States but a moving story on the human condition, and on communities surviving on the fringes of society.