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NECKTIE YOUTH

An oft-stately and delicately composed film
This is Shongwe-La Mer's debut feature
Film premiered at this year's Tribeca

In gutters of suburbia Jabz (Bonko Cosmo Khoza) and September (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer) wander in an anhedonic daze. It’s been one year since their friend Emily (Kelly Bates) hung herself in her backyard, live-streaming her suicide to millions all over the world. Their parents contentedly spend their days working and talking politics, largely oblivious to their children’s struggles with death, ... more >