SA Indie Film Fest 2020 x Dramatic #2 Short Official Selection

A serial killer is prowling around Paris. His killing ritual is to drop tarot cards in each of his victims' corpses. The killer made a new victim Liliane who is brutally murdered by 56 stab wounds. The victim's husband, Stephane, tried to save his wife, but he failed and was injured. Paul and Diane, police inspectors in charge of the investigation, summon Stephane, the only live witness to identify the serial killer. This thriller is freely inspired by and gravitates around the masterpiece canvas "Broken Column" painted by the iconic Frida Kahlo.

Broken Column

David, a homeless man and a silent narrator follows, the tags of a Latino Graffiti Writer, named Pedro. Those tags are the only source of light in the homeless man's empty world. Pedro shares the same world which is not so bright. In search of protection and fellowship, he is lured to join the notorious Vessel gang lead by his cousin Miguel and must undergo a final vicious initiation ritual. Through the final hours, Pedro is reminded by Jen his one true companion that his art is his protection and fellowship.

The Initiation

In an abandoned place where violence rules, only graffiti walls show compassion.

What starts out as a routine business trip, leads to Travis making the greatest moral decision of his lifetime.

One Night Stand

What starts out as a routine business trip, leads to Travis making the greatest moral decision of his lifetime.

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?

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.

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.

The Docks is about Hugo, a haunted dock worker, who is given a chance at redemption when a woman from his past named Gugu appears one night with a strange request to smuggle her onto a ship back to South Africa.Set in 1993, amid the changing political climate in both South Africa and Australia, The Docks poses the question: how far would a person be willing to go, and how much would they sacrifice, to fulfil the wishes of a loved one?

The Docks

A dockworker is given a chance at redemption when a woman appears one night with a request to be smuggled back to South Africa.

DAMAGE follows Rav and Emma's relationship, from the excitement and happiness of moving in together to the destruction caused by controlling behaviour and domestic violence. With support from UK male domestic violence charity ManKind, DAMAGE aims to #breakthesilence.

DAMAGE

DAMAGE follows Rav and Emma's relationship, from the excitement and happiness of moving in together to the destruction caused by controlling behaviour and domestic violence. With support from UK male domestic violence charity ManKind, DAMAGE aims to #breakthesilence

PULSE follows our protagonist as he becomes increasingly overwhelmed by his surrounding urban environment. Slowly, the anxiety builds up as he ventures into the downtown core of the city where he begins to hit his breaking point.

PULSE

A hybrid experimental film, PULSE examines the physical and mental effects of the anxiety experienced living in hyper active city.

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Dramatic #2 (9 film selection)

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South African Independent Film Festival 2020

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