African Shorts Series (62m) contains the following films:1) Heaven Sounds Boring (23m)2) Some Mother's Sons (25m)3) Joy's Garden (14m)For more details scroll thru the package menu on the Right, or visit the <a href="https://paff.eventive.org/films" target="_blank">Film Guide</a>.

A man realizes that his daughter’s terminal illness will soon take her life. As he grapples with the heartbreaking reality, his daughter sets on a mission to prove to him that according to her long-dead grandmother, death is not the end of life in African tradition. The man, who is Christian, struggles to understand what his daughter is saying, thinking she is too young to understand his pain. She thinks he is too Christian to see beyond what his faith has taught him. So father and daughter offer comfort to each other in the best way they know how, but neither Christianity nor African tradition offer easy answers.

Heaven Sounds Boring

A terminally ill six-year-old helps her devoted Christian father rediscover the traditional understanding of death in their culture.

Set in jail cells twenty years apart, two friends Vusi and Braam, manage to help each other navigate both the legal and personal landscape of their respective imprisonments despite coming from different backgrounds. Award: Finalist, Paris International Short Festival Paris, 2021

Some Mothers' Sons

Edwin is abruptly promoted from absent baby daddy to sole caregiver of Joy, his seven-year-old daughter, when her mom passes away. Joy’s plants and presence disrupt Edwin’s home life, infuriating him – until he sees a drawing of Joy and her mother in their old garden. Can Edwin find it in himself to give Joy the home she needs?

Joy's Garden

A little girl arrives at her estranged father’s bachelor pad, wrecking his comfortable life.

African Shorts Series (62m)

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