Jozi Film Festival: International Short Documentaries

The Jozi Film Festival is an annual event that showcases the latest films made by South African and international filmmakers in one of Africa’s most vibrant cities – Johannesburg. The sixth Jozi Film Festival will highlight the very best in filmmaking, presenting a multi-genre slate of films from emerging and established filmmakers, exploring a broad range of topics that affect our communities and stir our hearts and minds.

Tickets: R50

Cab Elvis (USA)

Directed by: Andrew Franks

10min

Dave Groh, a cab driver who dresses like Elvis, finds himself not only in a battle with the city of Seattle but also the dark side of Elvis. He ultimately triumphs.

Commodity City (USA)

Directed by: Jessica Kingdon

10min 43s

Commodity City is an observational documentary exploring the daily lives of vendors who work in the largest wholesale consumer market in the world: the Yiwu Markets in China. The film explores moments of tension between commerce and individuality, between the goods for sale and the humans who sell them.

Nobody Dies Here (France)

Directed by: Simon Panay

23min 21s

Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.

Make-It-Rail (USA)

Danny Hoffman

4min 38s

In the ruins of central Liberia's iron ore mines, groups of local boys work together to move people and goods along abandoned railroad tracks. This is the Make-It-Rail.

The Thinking Garden (Canada)

Directed by: Christine Walsh

35min

This is a film about resilience -- three generations of older women in a village in South Africa who came together in the dying days of apartheid to create a community garden. Filmed against the backdrop of an epic drought gripping southern Africa, The Thinking Garden tells the remarkable story of what can happen when older women take matters into their own hands, and shows how local action in food production can give even the most vulnerable people a measure of control over their food and their futures.