Jozi Film Festival: South African Student Films 2018

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 seventh 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

South African Student Films

The Water Dancers 

Dir: Robyn Palmer / 25min

Dragonflies are the sentinels of the Earth. Being among the oldest creatures on our planet, they have lived in harmony with the indigenous plants and animals of Earth’s bountiful landscapes for 300 million years. We came, we conquered and we evicted them from their habitats. Now, after millennia of human recklessness, we are turning back to nature’s messenger, the dragonfly, for promise of a new way forward. 

Skin Diver

Dir: Katya Abedian / 15min

Skin Diver is a coming-of-age frame narrative which begins with a young, hearing-impaired girl opening a story book she has received for her birthday. The world she opens follows the growth of Saffron, a dreamer-stuck-in-the-suburbs.

Revolver 

Dir: Hermann Venter / 10min

A woman recalls a poignant recollection from her childhood as she finds herself recalling the moments and events that led up to her father’s suicide.

Umnengo 

Dir: Siphosethu Ndunge / 24min

Exploring issues of patriarchy, gender based violence against women and the misuse of cultures in a modern context.