Jani Zhao

Taking two antiracist and antiauthoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, SOUTH presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked with director Morgan Quaintance’s own biography, the film also considers questions of mortality and the will to transcend a world typified by concrete relations.

Adapted from the memoirs of a 16th-century Portuguese explorer, this seafaring epic tells the tales of travel to India, Japan and places in between.