Jozi Film Festival: The Closer We Get

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 fith 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.

The festival will also offer provocative Q&A sessions with the filmmakers in attendance, as well as workshops and networking events. Wrapping up the festival with an exciting Awards Ceremony.

The Closer We Get, UK 

1hr 27mins

Documentary

DIR: Karen Guthrie

African premiere

Karen's mother suffers a stroke that brings her daughter back home to Scotland. But she isn't the only one who returns to care for Ann in the crisis. Her prodigal father, the endearing but unfathomable Ian, moves home again after years of separation. Armed with her camera, Karen seizes the chance to go under the skin of her unbelievable family story before it's too late, to come to terms with the aftermath of the secret her father Ian had tried - and failed - to keep from them all, and to find the devastation of the stroke has thrown them an unexpected life-raft. Exquisitely shot, surprisingly funny and unflinching in its honesty and tenderness, this is a unique portrait of family survival. This award-winning film touches on the repercussions of the United Kingdom’s colonial past.