Jozi Film Festival: South African Short Fiction Double-Bill

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

The Suit

Directed by: Jarryd Coetzee

30min

In 1950s Sophiatown, South Africa, shortly before the apartheid regime forcibly removed the township's Black residents to make way for White resettlement, Philemon discovers his wife Matilda in bed with a young man. The young man flees, leaving behind his suit. Philemon devises a cruel punishment by forcing his wife to treat her lover's suit as if it were a person. She must serve it meals, take it for walks around the neighborhood, even to church. Despite Matilda's attempts to please her husband, she faces a dwindling number of choices and Philemon's unrelenting punishment will ultimately have tragic consequences for both of them..

Filmed in historic locations in Sophiatown and featuring Tony Award-winner John Kani, with music by Billie Holiday and Spokes Mashiyane, "The Suit" is a powerful metaphor for the impact of oppression on personal relationships, and a warning that the oppressed can become the oppressor.

The Hangman

Directed by: Zwelethu Radebe 

30min

THE HANGMAN is a film set in the Gallows, Pretoria in 1989. Writer/Director Zwelethu Radebe tells a story of family secret that destroyed a son’s love for his father and he’s journey to finding out the truth.

Q&A to follow the screening