Each short film is a concise and important essay on what it means to be South African. IKON South Africa displays three personal histories that are inexorably tied to the political and emotional struggle for a democratic South Africa. Filmed through the eyes of the subjects, this series offers diverse opinions on the heartbreaking implications of the violently enforced social structure under the Apartheid government. The son of a preacher takes up the communist ideal to further the armed struggle. A teenager decides to take up arms against the Apartheid machine. Their armed organisation was infiltrated with tragic and unexplained consequences. Della Togna’s father abandoned his Italian wife and children in South Africa and returned to Italy with a young coloured wife, also abandoned and living in exile in Venice.

Yu Chi Chan Club
Dir: Vaughan Giose

Winter is July
Dir: Beverley Mitchell

Bloodroots
Dir: Martina della Togna