The South African film GOD’S WORK, directed and written by Michael James, and produced by Sithabile Mkhize, will have its Middle East and North Africa premiere in the Long Film Competition at the 15th Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt from 30 March to 5 April.
GOD’S WORK which had its South African premiere at the Durban International Film Festival last year, screened to sold-out houses, and critical acclaim, and is due to be screened at the Joburg Film Festival on Sunday 8 March.
The film is set in Durban where a group of unhoused men are surviving on the society’s margins in a dilapidated building that offers a fragile sanctuary. They are bound by quiet loyalty. The audience is drawn into their personal journeys as they navigate a world of indifferent authorities, opportunists, and looming violence. It is their inner worlds – woven from memories, visions, and ghosts – that hold reality as vivid as the one they fight to live through.
Director Michael James describes the film as an act of bearing witness; and one which forces us to question our understanding and relationships with unhoused people.
The film features Thobani Nzuza, Mbulelo Radebe, Omega Ncube, Siya Xaba, Zenzo Msomi and Nduduzo Kholwa with cinematography by Jared Hinde and score by award-winning composer, West-African born George Acogny.
GOD’S WORK is written and directed by Michael James, and Produced by Sithabile Mkhize (SA), Co-Produced by Marco Orsini (USA), Executive Produced by Toni Monty (SA) and Gary Springer (USA). A Maverick Resistance production in association with the KwaZulu-Natal Film and Tourism Authority, the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, Amafrika Films, and Mojo Entertainment LLC, supported by the Durban Film Office.
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