Join Little Cinema and Rythm of Afrika as we screen the charged South African film Necktie Youth. 

Immersive contemporary dance performances throughout the film supported by live music by South African/New York duo Tiger + Man. 

Dance with us at our after party featuring STA7CK and the Carnyval Dancers. 

Film info:

Twenty-three year old director Sibs Shongwe-la Mer's film "Necktie Youth" centers around a generation of young adults that are growing up in post-Apartheid South Africa, the "born free" generation. 

This isn't a story of poverty or hardship - it is a film about growing up in a politically "post-racial" society. A film about falling in love with someone of a different race or the same gender. A film about growing up on the internet with the constant flux of swirling global cultural exchange. An online world where feelings are multiplied, amplified, and distorted. 

There is nothing anyone can do once media is put on the internet, and in the case of  the two protagonists Jabz and September - it is the live-streamed suicide of their friend Emily. Dealing with the fallout of the tragedy and the mundaneness of their suburban lifestyle they turn to sex, drugs, philosophizing. This is the "summer with the sound turned off so that you can really see it