My Father’s Son

In 2020, two estranged South African brothers—one Jewish, one Black—meet online for the first time and, through a series of Zoom calls, begin uncovering a shared past shaped by separation, silence, and unexpected brotherhood. My Father’s Son moves between present-day video calls and fragments of memory as the brothers piece together a history held in archive photographs, home videos, cassettes, and family stories. What emerges is a fractured portrait of a father whose absence defined two parallel lives, shaped by apartheid’s racial divides, secrecy, and the complex realities of raising children across boundaries of race, class, and belonging. As they confront inherited narratives, gossip, and half-truths, their search for understanding becomes a reckoning with loss, identity, and the meaning of fatherhood. Across continents and screens, the brothers’ lost years reveal the complexities of connection as they heal from the legacy of a segregated country and a wounded family.