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The 39th Durban International Film Festival will take place from July 19 to 29 in Durban.
The 10-day festival and one of Durban's largest events will feature 180 feature films, documentaries and short films from around the world, screened in seven commercial theaters and nine free public places across Durban .
We know it's a bit impossible to watch everything so we chose a few
The Tokoloshe directed by Jerome Pikwane
This is the movie of opening of the festival and tells the story of Busi, a young woman destitute to emotions dangerously repressed. She gets a job as a cleaner in a run-down hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for money so that she can take her younger sister to Johannesburg, she has to face despite the director of the predatory and corrupt hospital. When Busi discovers a girl abandoned in the hospital, who believes she is being tormented by a supernatural force, Busi has to face the demons of her own past in order to save the child from the abusive monster who is pursuing them both. tirelessly.
Rafiki directed by Wanuri Kahiu
The festival will end with a film. The story revolves around Kena played by Samantha Mugatsia and Ziki played by Sheila Munyiva, who are two very different girls living in a subdivision in Nairobi. Despite the political rivalry between their families, girls remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. But when they fall in love, they are forced to choose between their safety and their love for each other.
Farewell Ella Bella directed by Lwazi Mvusi
Here is the story of a young woman, Ella, burying her father. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, Ella sacrificed her life, her opportunities and her love for taking care of a man she regrets, but she is now drifting in the world after her death . The story tells the story of Ella and her nomadic godfather, Neo, and the twists and turns of the long, open highways of the Western Cape across the Northern Cape (Kimberley) to Gauteng allow them to to find strength in each other, maturity in themselves and wisdom in the characters they meet on the way.
Mayfair directed by Sara Blecher
Located in the Mayfair suburb of Johannesburg, an area previously defined as "Indian" by the architects of apartheid, but which has since become a new melting pot migrants from the other side of the continent, the film tells the story of the relationship between the crime leader Aziz (Rajesh Gopie) and his son Zaid (Ronak Patani). As the film progresses, Blecher repels the layers of moral hypocrisy that hide beneath the polish of Aziz's respectability. Zaid rejects and abhors everything about his father's moral choices – until he learns that his father had to make exactly the same choice that he is now forced to make.
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