Necktie Youth (2015)

  • NR
  • 04/15/2015 (US)
  • 1h 33m

Overview

Anyone who grows up in Sandton spends a lot of time hanging out at pools and drug-filled parties – for this part of Johannesburg is the richest spot in the whole of Africa. Necktie Youth portrays this first post-apartheid gilded youth in striking black-and-white. Soft colours are reserved for their childhood memories of the early years of the rainbow nation. White 19-year-old Emily did not understand the codes of their set and could not take the pace of the ever-changing, fleeting liaisons, says the super cool, black and privileged September when he tries to explain to a TV reporter why Emily hung herself in her parents’ garden. She even positioned her camera in such a way that her suicide could be streamed live.

Sibs Shongwe-La Mer

Director, Writer

Cast

Sibs Shongwe-La Mer's headshot

Sibs Shongwe-La Mer

September
Bonko Khoza's headshot

Bonko Khoza

Jabz
Colleen Balchin's headshot

Colleen Balchin

Tanya
Kamogelo Moloi's headshot

Kamogelo Moloi

Bogosi
Emma Tollman's headshot

Emma Tollman

Nikki

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