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. 

This year's program includes a range of boundary pushing work characterized by technical and aesthetic innovation, with film's utilizing various mediums and modes of production including stop motion, point-and-shoot compact cameras, flatbed scanners as imaging tools, augmented digital pixelation, 8mm and 16mm film, found footage, and cell phone video.

Line up:

• A Biography dir. Alexander Schellow (France)

• Box Cutters dir. Naomi Van Niekerk (France)

• Extra City dir. Anastasia Dale (Australia)

• Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies dir. Benjamin Rosenthal, Eric Souther (United States)

• Home is a Place You Burn Down dir. Saif Arbee (South Africa)

• The Job Interview dir. Vidal Thaver  (South Africa)

• Psshhhh or Liphi iKhaya Labo dir. Carl-David Sandile Saldanha (South Africa)

• The Savage dir. Sinan Kaldan (Turkey)

• Questioning the Existence of Alec dir. Roger Horn (United States)

  
  

• 6:45pm - Doors open - snacks and drinks available for purchase.

• 7.05pm - Introduction.

• 7:10pm - Film screening.

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

• 8.45pm - venue closed