Jozi Film Festival: SA & International Short Fiction 2

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 

Sea of Ash (SA) 

Directed by: Michael Macgarry

11min 46s

A poetic re-imagining of Death in Venice, featuring a West African immigrant to Italy who embarks on a journey from the Alpine mountains to the seaside and ultimately, on a doomed voyage home.

French (Cameroon)

Directed by: Josza Anjembe

20min

At seventeen, Seyna, a teenager from Cameroon is passionate about France history, the country where she was born and she is deeply in love.
Her diploma in hand, and approaching her majority, Seyna only desire one thing: to acquire French nationality. But her father Amidou is fiercely opposed to it.

Nomfundo (SA)

Directed by: Sihle Hlope

15min

Nomfundo is a short film about a tormented and impulsive young woman who is pregnant with her first child. When Nomfundo is betrayed by the two people she holds dear to her heart, she makes an erratic decision that unleashes a tragic chain of events. She flees from the repercussions of her actions and has a transcendental encounter that changes the course of her life forever.

Nation Down (UK)

Directed by: Lam Hendrix Heath

14min 57s

On a strange world locked in a dystopian nightmare, an oppressive regime is met with riots and rebellion. Desperate to suppress chaos, the king triggers a perverse manipulative scheme before risking his dominance in a warped bid for companionship.

There will be a Q&A with Michael MacGarry (SEA OF ASH) and Sihle Hlope (NOMFUNDO) to follow screening