God\u2019s Work, the uncompromising South African feature directed by Michael James, has been selected to screen at the 8th edition of the Joburg Film Festival on Sunday, 8 March at 16:15 at Artistry in Sandton.<\/p>\n
Set within an abandoned inner-city building, God\u2019s Work confronts homelessness not as abstraction, but as lived economic exclusion. Hunger, addiction, fractured memory and systemic neglect shape the interior and exterior worlds of men pushed beyond society\u2019s margins. Stark social realities collide with surreal psychological landscapes, creating a film that resists easy categorisation.<\/p>\n
The film embraces a hybrid cinematic language \u2014 blending documentary textures, staged encounters, archival material and symbolic imagery \u2014 to question how cinema frames lives that exist outside systems of access and visibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa\u2019s deepening social fractures are no longer peripheral,\u201d says Producer Sithabile Mkhize. \u201cPeople are being steadily removed from opportunity, recognition and support. God\u2019s Work offers a direct encounter with these realities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Director Michael James describes the film as an act of bearing witness:
\n\u201cThis film is ultimately an exercise in empathy. Cinema allows us to dismantle distance \u2014 to attempt to see one another without mediation or judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Early responses have described God\u2019s Work as \u201ca film that does not ask for sympathy but demands reckoning\u201d and \u201ca powerful confrontation with the human cost of inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film features emotionally grounded performances from South African talents Thobani Nzuza, Mbulelo Radebe, Omega Ncube, Siya Xaba, Zenzo Msomi and Nduduzo Kholwa. Cinematography by Jared Hinde captures the textured physicality of the setting, while George Acogny\u2019s haunting score deepens the psychological and emotional tension of the narrative.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s Work is produced by Maverick Entertainment, Amafrika Films and Mojo Entertainment, with support from the KZN Film and Tourism Authority, the Durban Film Office and the National Film and Television Foundation.<\/p>\n
Producers: Sithabile Mkhize
\nExecutive Producers: Toni Monty, Gary Springer
\nCo-Producer: Marco Orsini<\/p>\n
God\u2019s Work screens Sunday, 8 March at 16:15 at Artistry, 22 Fredman Drive, Sandown, Sandton.
\nTickets: webtickets.co.za
\nTrailer: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1072745582?fl=pl&fe=sh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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