SA Indie Film Fest 2020 x Mindf*ck Short Films Official Selection

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.

Chris revisits the Tiki bar where he made his first ever deal. He wants to celebrate the biggest deal he's ever made by drinking down memory lane. It is early morning and there is only one other customer, Barry, and the Barman.Barry is drinking to forget and is in no mood to celebrate anything. Only Chris' offer of free drinks for a week if he can't solve Barry's problems makes Barry change his mind. Barry has a unique problem. He came up with a truly original idea. And he is the only one immune to it. Chris doesn't believe a word of it and is determined to prove Barry a liar and win the bet.

O.I.

Ever heard of an idea so good, it will make your head explode?

A young woman named Eloise discovers that one night at a party, her boyfriend, Luke, has suddenly vanished. She questions her own sanity as she tries to uncover what happened to him.

Ghosted

After the disappearance of her boyfriend, a young woman begins to question her own sanity about his existence.

Gale, a lead programmer for Hy_Brain, is timid but talented in her field. A solitary woman in a highly connected environment where people no longer utilise external devices to facilitate their digital needs, instead they opt for a neural implant, Hy_Brain. Once synced, the digital world is only a thought away. The lonely routine of her work and the sterility of her life leave Gale desiring human connection. Someone to love and be loved by, someone to grow and experience life with...enter Bailey.Bailey is what's missing from Gale's life, bringing her out of her shell and showing her how special she is.Suddenly on top of the world and in love, everything is perfect, until one day Gale inexplicably collapses. Andrew, a friend and work colleague, runs a diagnostic identifying a virus in her Hy_Brain... Bailey. An update error who has infected Gale.Deleting Bailey is the only option. Gale is faced with the choice of either dying for love, or living alone.

Hy_Brain

A woman's search for love in a technological future has dire consequences.

It’s a story about a vicious husband who has been regularly cheated on by his wife,scheming to revenge the wife and her lover.Using narrative techniques like’Closed-circuit television’,the film’s able to be shot in just one single take.The audience can see nine pictures in the screen, understanding the whole story in their own ways,choose their favourite parts to watch.

All This Surveillance

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.

Mars, the new frontier. What form does justice take when things go horribly wrong? After 182 days aboard the ZRS, a research station orbiting Mars, astronaut Commander Charlie Shaw finds himself alone on the red planet and isolated from his crew. In search of answers, he uncovers some disturbing truths about his situation and the fate of the mission. This is the first film by two Australian filmmakers. With sets built in their garage on a shoestring budget, real locations for Mars, models for all the space shots and costumes all made in-house as original designs, created from scratch. There is no CGI in our film. This is an old school film, with a good dose of weird.

Thalamos

Mars, the new frontier. What form does justice take when things go horribly wrong?

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