Necktie Youth
6.5
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.
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Cast
23 people
Sibs Shongwe-La Mer
September
Bonko Khoza
Jabz
Known for
Heart of the Hunter
Collision
Gijs Determeijer
Bonko Cosmo Khoza
Jabz
Colleen Balchin
Tanya
No other roles listed
Gijs Kerbosch
Kamogelo Moloi
Bogosi
No other roles listed
Nicole Kitt
Emma Tollman
Nikki
No other roles listed
Roel Oude Nijhuis
Cait Pansegrouw
Elias Ribeiro
Sibs Shongwe-La Mer Director · Chuanne Blofield Cinematographer
United States release April 15, 2015 · Produced in Netherlands, South Africa · Languages Afrikaans, English, Zulu
Production
100% Film & Photography
Production
100% Halal
Production
Urucu Media
Production
Netherlands · South Africa
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Afrikaans · English · Zulu
Release dates
Germany · February 8, 2015
Premiere
United States · April 15, 2015
Theatrical
South Africa · September 25, 2015
Theatrical
Australia
June 10, 2015 · Sydney Film Festival
Brazil
March 9, 2017 · Theatrical
France
October 14, 2015 · La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
Netherlands
November 5, 2015 · Theatrical
Poland
July 25, 2015 · New Horizons Film Festival
Sweden
February 3, 2016 · Gothenburg Film Festival
Tunisia
November 26, 2015 · Carthage Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 16, 2015 · London Film Festival
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