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.

• - Doors open - snacks and drinks available for purchase.6:30pm

• - Introduction.7pm

• - Film screening.7:15pm

• - Q&A session featuring the local filmmakers.8:15pm

• - venue closed8.45pm

 (Saturday, 2 September)JUFF DAY 1

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:

• dir. Roger Horn (Germany)Mushroom Water 

• dir. Jason Mollink (South Africa)Rhodes House 

• dir. Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)[ technopoetics ] 

• dir. Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi (South Africa)Passion, Love and Soulmate 

• dir. Neil Ira Needleman (USA)Coincidences 

• dir. Bill Badi (South Africa)Tiny Apocalypse 

 (Friday, 8 September)JUFF DAY 2

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:

• dir. Amber Rose McNeill (USA)meyne hent 

• dir. Camilo Zain Saloojee and Xolelwa Nhlabatsi (South Africa)Nefarious Creatures 

• dir. Ruth Hayes (USA)Amulet 

• dir. Paul Theron (South Africa)Morning Vision 

• dir. Kyle Mangione-Smith (USA)Annihilator 

•  dir. Nacho Recio (Spain)woodworm lab

 (Saturday, 9 September)JUFF DAY 3

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:

• dir. Michael Lavine (USA)The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus 

• dir. Jason Moyes (United Kingdom)forms with space and distance and hills 

• dir. Juliet Athena Markantonatos (South Africa)Small Town Film 

• dir. Ivana Esposito (Italy)Chance Change 

• Nensha dir. Marco Du Plooy (South Africa)

• dir. David Culotta (USA)Doofeepelop