Jozi Film Festival: SA & International Short Fiction 4

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

Hashtagwill (Sweden)

Directed by: Per Sundström

21min 58s

A teenage Video blogger is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but after strange events and threats he has to gain control of both his mind and own destiny.

There's still good (SA)

Directed by: Ciaran Maidwell

12min

There’s Still Good is about the danger of a single story, about how stereotypes can be damagng to personal relationships. The story is focalized through Will, a young black student from Cape Town who travels to the suburbs with his white boyfriend, K, to meet Joy, K’s mother. At dinner, Joy asks Will what his ‘African’ name is, and the characters are forced to interrogate their responses to an awkward situation which has arisen as a result of Joy’s access to only a single understanding of black South Africans. The film offers no resolution, and the boys leave the house the following afternoon, their relationship irrevocably altered.

Walking Home (Germany)

Directed by: Max Richert

16min 40s

Two students from different countries meet on the last night of their school trips to Italy. Sharing dislike for their respective farewell parties, initial distance and reservations between them quickly turn into bonding and rapport.