SA Indie Film Fest 2020 x SA Dramatic Short Films Official Selection

Set in rural South Africa, where most people have never had the opportunity to experience wildlife, Queen, Rifumo and Wisani emerge as three young eco-warriors. The film follows how a course in wildlife photography changes their lives. Armed with a camera, the trio aim to rise above their difficult pasts and 'frame' the narrative of wildlife conservation. Queen becomes one of the only black female field guides in South Africa, while Rifumo and Wisani start a business together. The trio have one goal - to inspire the youth from their community to protect our natural heritage.

Beyond The Fence

Conceived and produced in a time before global tragedy struck, Heirloom confronts us with the possibility of sudden loss and the need for consolation in whatever form it may come. Now, in a time where death seems so much closer, the film gains an almost visionary relevance. Following Caro, who, lost in grief after the death of her partner, discovers an unexpected parting gift, Heirloom examines the impact of loss and the power of a thoughtful gesture. Almost entirely without dialogue, the film harnesses strong performance and simple, lingering visuals to arrive at the question: What will you leave behind?Despite the dark subject matter it deals with, the film unleashes an infectious energy that opens our eyes for the road ahead in a time when all we know and treasure seems to lie behind us.

Heirloom

Lost in grief after the death of her partner, Caro discovers an unexpected parting gift. Heirloom examines the impact of loss and the power of a thoughtful gesture. Almost entirely without dialogue, the film harnesses strong performance and simple, lingering visuals to arrive at the question: What will you leave behind?

When Sibongile misses her son's academic award ceremony, she promises to make it up to him by leaving work early the next day to celebrate with him. But when she wakes up the next morning, her son is missing. On that very day, she makes another promise to Cassandra - the little girl whose parents she works for - to come and watch her in her school play the next week. Despite the stress of a missing son, Sibongile puts on a brave face at work so that she may keep her promise to her son by coming home early.

UMAMA

Inspired by a true story about a domestic worker and the day she wakes up to find her son is missing.

Vusi is a student activist at a prestigious university that has educated many political activists and government leaders. But he is also the son of the wealthy Finance Minister, who was a former Apartheid activist; a man who may be responsible for damning political and economic corruption.But the degree he studies finally opens his eyes to the truth of his father's hypocritical legacy. And through their explosive confrontation, Vusi finally discovers that, behind the legacy, is an embittered and hardened man who refuses to take meaningful responsibility for it.Now Vusi must choose: either he condones his father's actions and walks away from confronting it, or he chooses to stand up for himself and choose his own path through life, becoming the social activist he was born to be, even if it means standing apart from his father - a man whom Vusi believes can still overcome his failings. A man who does not know that the reckoning of those he's wronged will come for him by the end of the day.

The Turning Son

An activist son falls out with his wealthy but corrupt father when the father's actions as a minister are revealed, having violently crushed a worker's strike.

A rural runaway girl and a degraded Zimbabwean boxer bump into each other and discover that they are not the only one who needs to be saved.

The Fighter

A rural runaway girl and a degraded Zimbabwean boxer bump into each other and discover that they are not the only one who needs to be saved.

Daniel, a young father seeking to atone for the rape that he committed in university, reaches out to Claire, the women he assaulted, to ask for her forgiveness. She agrees to meet with him at her offices after hours and it is there that they have a conversation that will change their lives forever. Starring Francis Chouler and Amalia Uys, the film was written and directed by Brett Michael Innes (Sink, Fiela se Kind) and produced by Paulo Areal (Ellen Pakkies) and Schalk Willem Burger (Ellen Pakkies).

Blue Dress

A young father seeks to atone for the rape that he committed in university by reaching out to apologize to the woman who he assaulted.

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