SA Indie Film Fest 2020 x Hectic Bru Short Films Official Selection

Saloon is a dystopian African short, that centers on a hitman named Nkanyamba who struggles with his demons and visits a safe haven in the towns known to all hitmen and women as 'Saloons'. As he begins to relax and have a drink, the bartender begins to pester him about his battle-scars. He tells a deep mythic tale about an angel leaving God, while the devil hunts him. Shot in Durban and directed by independent director, Dayakar Padayachee, this allegorical short film about the state of control, illustrates that the truth could be hidden right under your nose.

Saloon

Nkanyamba is a hit-man, in a dystopian alternative South Africa. He wants the life of a righteous path, and sets off to the safe havens, Saloons, for a drink, only to learn enemies are all around him.

Human trafficking and domestic violence are a huge global pandemic. This film is based on true stories of real people who really suffer this atrocity. Our film is narrated by Agreement, an older woman, who's youth is triggered by overhearing a neighbour abusing their daughter. Her past life still haunts her. Her story started when she was a young girl with a bright future ahead of her. She wins a scholarship to study in the city, her mother is super proud, and reaches out to a distant relative to help accommodate her daughter. She recalls arriving in the big city, with great excitement and anticipation of her bright future. Sadly, her joy quickly changed to sorrow, as she is physically and mentally abused by her mother's extended family. She is forced to work and serve their needs. Eventually she is so badly beaten that neighbours report the suspected abuse. Agreement escapes but is never the same again.

DOMESTIC SERVITUDE

A short film based on a true story of a young teen who comes to stay with relatives in the city, but her life is not what she was promised .

A desperate survivor races after the most valuable resource in a dangerous and desolate wilderness. In the wake of the Cape Town water crisis, a handful of local filmmakers put together a project that tackled environmental issues. In developing a film that focused on the needs of Cape Town, we discovered a global story. OASIS is a Science-Fiction short film that comments on our responsibility in a world that is vulnerable.

Oasis

A desperate survivor races after the most valuable resource in a dangerous and desolate wilderness.

In post-apocalyptic future Cape Town, a jaded, desperate sex worker, Annika, encounters the blind and homeless Lisolethu, whose innocence erupts her plan of self-satisfaction to be a revelation of the deeper void to be fulfilled.

In Sight

20 hours before Storm Sandy hits Cape Town, Lisolethu is a blind adolescent who has just run away from home to escape his past traumas. He tries to reconstruct his own value but his society shatters him to his most broken state in which he finally achieves self-realization.

A young interracial couple takes a shortcut through the oldest colonial site in South Africa, The Company's Garden. The boyfriend makes a grim observation about the garden's history of slavery, so his 'woke' white girlfriend tries to lighten the mood by clambering up an Apartheid-era statue. She talks him into climbing up with her. Things take a turn for the worse when a young security guard violently intervenes. An older guard breaks up the fight, and pleads to the furious couple to forgive his colleague because he is new on the job and made an honest mistake: he thought that the 'brother' was an unsavoury character chasing the 'madam' up the statue. The couple, still in a state of shock, starts to question themselves. Did the young guard really just make an honest mistake? Meanwhile, the guards get summoned to another part of the city, on their perpetual duty of keeping the streets safe for middle-class taxpayers and tourists. After they've left, the couple stands in silence as they contemplate their place in this eternally complex country. The man finds himself comforting his girlfriend even though he is the one who had been attacked.

The Company's Garden

A young South African couple are forced to grapple with their place in society after a romantic late-night stroll descends into a brutal reminder of how the sins of the past continue to shape the present.

Joanne and Nick are struggling with their relationship, and tensions are building around their crumbling relationship. Things fall apart and they separate. However, when Nick ends up trapped at home after a car accident, Joanne sees an opportunity to fix things. Keep Needing Me is a thriller built around the horror of people's actions when they get desperate.

Keep Needing Me

Following a car accident, a man is trapped in his apartment with his increasingly mentally unstable girlfriend.

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SA Hectic Bru (6 film selection)

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South African Independent Film Festival 2020

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