There are over 550,000 active private security guards in South Africa, much more than the number of police and soldiers combined. Fear Fokol takes a nightly ride into the fears and anxieties of the city’s prosperous inhabitants by following the work of the private security guards hired to protect them. The illusion of security slowly dissolves as we dig into a fragile climate of inequality, paranoia and masculinity in crisis.
Tuva is a hybrid filmmaker from Helsinki and has an MFA in Artistic Film Directing as well as a BFA in Fine Arts from HDK-Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. Her works have been shown at The Museum of Gothenburg, Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo) and Bag Factory Artists' Studios (Johannesburg). Her debut feature documentary Unanimal as well as her short documentary Fear Fokol are both premiering at CPH:Dox 2025.
