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Growing up in Sandton – a suburb of Johannesburg with Africa’s highest concentration of millionaires – means spending most of your time at swimming pools and parties full of drugs. Jabz and September, both twentysomething, drift around this world, philosophising about their empty existence. When Emily, a friend of the pair, live streams her suicide, Jabz and September are forced to confront a hard truth that cannot be ignored. A thrilling portrait of South African youth post-apartheid. Berlin Film Festival 2015.
Sibs Shongwe-La Mer
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1991. He is a director, writer, artist and curator. He started out directing shorts and music videos at 19. Death of Tropics (2012) won an award at the Mosaic World Film Festival. In 2013, he directed Transitions, Black Paris and Territorial Pissings. He took part in the Final Cut workshop at the Venice Film Festival, where he developed the project that became this, his first feature.
