Jozi Film Festival: Short films 1

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.

Lina and Leo

27 mins

Comedy, Drama

DIR: Yolande Botha

An off-beat dark comedy drama about a struggling middle-aged journalist who is hot on the trail of a reclusive surrealist artist, hoping to break his next big story. But after waking up in the middle of nowhere, buried up to his shoulders, with his new chicken friend, Lina, tied to his neck, he realises it may not be as easy as he thought. After getting a lift back into the obscure, little town with a strange father and daughter, he encounters one bizarre thing after another. Not only does it seem like the whole town is in on the artist's secret, it's as if he's entered a whole world of surrealism.

The Agency 

10 mins

Drama

DIR: Brent Palmer

'The Agency” is an enigmatic tale of the relationship between two brothers bound by fierce loyalty and bitter compromise. Our action takes place on a fateful yet seemingly regular morning when our hero comes to visit his institutionalized brother. As their meeting becomes progressively weird and mysterious, with the brother’s behaviour becoming increasingly erratic, our hero needs to take ever more vigilant steps so as not to disturb the volatile space, which is his brother’s dark and dangerous mind. Our story concludes with a twist of bitter-sweet tragedy when our hero is ultimately forced to make a decision of heart-breaking consequence.

Foto 

25 mins

Thriller, Fantasy

DIR: Linsen Loots

A driven young photographer uncovers the dark secret behind a set of striking images as her curiosity develops into full-blown obsession.

Michaela, a driven young photographer, is left spellbound by the striking images on display at an anonymous photography exhibition. In an attempt to find out who took the photos, she befriends the gallery’s curator, Bernard. From him she learns the images were found amongst the possessions of a relative, recently killed in a freak car accident.

Umishi 

15 mins

Family, Drama, Fantasy

DIR: Ken Yoshioka

'The bar looked like something different in the City of Tokyo. I felt as if I was called to the scent of the place. I saw only “Umeshu” and the location on its menu... Is this a bar that only serves plum wine from throughout Japan?... No - the drink served to me was too beautiful to be just only that...' It drew me back to my beginning... to the sea...'