The Joburg Underground Film Festival is committed to presenting experimental, radical, and unorthodox cinema from all corners of the globe.

As one of the only festivals in Sub-Saharan Africa with an exclusive focus on experimental short films, we aim to showcase groundbreaking African cinema alongside other great films from around the world. Our program includes a range of boundary pushing work characterized by technical and aesthetic innovation, with a focus on unique perspectives.

• 6:30pm - Doors open - snacks and drinks available for purchase.
• 7pm - Introduction.
• 7:15pm - Film screening.
• 8:15pm - Q&A session featuring the local filmmakers.
• 8.45pm - venue closed

JUFF DAY 1 (Saturday, 2 September)

Six short films from Brazil, South Africa, the USA, Zimbabwe, and Germany. Featuring an acerbic and politically charged mockumentary, a montage of memories exploring the lonely domesticity of an industrial South African town, a collection of idiosyncratic object-poems, and more. Screening followed by a filmmaker Q&A .

Films:

• Mushroom Water dir. Roger Horn (Germany)
• Rhodes House dir. Jason Mollink (South Africa)
• [ technopoetics ] dir. Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)
• Passion, Love and Soulmate dir. Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi (South Africa)
• Coincidences dir. Neil Ira Needleman (USA)
• Tiny Apocalypse dir. Bill Badi (South Africa)

JUFF DAY 2 (Friday, 8 September)

Six short films from Spain, South Africa, and the USA. Featuring a neo-noir love letter to the city of Johannesburg, a visually rich sequence of animated light paintings, a blistering dive into a young man's obsession with the dark web, and more. (Contains explicit content. Suggested for Adults). Screening followed by a filmmaker Q&A .

Films:

• meyne hent dir. Amber Rose McNeill (USA)
• Nefarious Creatures dir. Camilo Zain Saloojee and Xolelwa Nhlabatsi (South Africa)
• Amulet dir. Ruth Hayes (USA)
• Morning Vision dir. Paul Theron (South Africa)
• Annihilator dir. Kyle Mangione-Smith (USA)
• woodworm lab dir. Nacho Recio (Spain)
• Strawberry Shake dir. Lou Andréa Fiere (Estonia)

JUFF DAY 3 (Saturday, 9 September)

Six short films from The UK, South Africa, the USA, and Italy. Featuring a young woman's reality-bending journey following a trepanation, a stop-motion science fiction epic, an exploration of the relationship between electricity pylons and the landscape made with hand processed super 8mm film, and more. Screening followed by a filmmaker Q&A .

Films:

• The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus dir. Michael Lavine (USA)
• forms with space and distance and hills dir. Jason Moyes (United Kingdom)
• Small Town Film dir. Juliet Athena Markantonatos (South Africa)
• Chance Change dir. Ivana Esposito (Italy)
• Nensha dir. Marco Du Plooy (South Africa)
• Doofeepelop dir. David Culotta (USA)