Afro Visionary Movie Nights

AFRO VISIONARY MOVIE NIGHTS PRESENTS: THE HALLOWEEN EDITION

STREET TRASH (2024)

31 October 2026 | The Bioscope Independent Cinema, Johannesburg

This Halloween, AVMN takes you somewhere dark.

Set in Cape Town in the year 2050, STREET TRASH imagines a future shaped by extreme economic inequality, where the middle class has disappeared and society has been divided between the ultra-rich and those left to survive on the streets.

When Ronald and a fellow homeless friend uncover a government plot to liquidate the homeless population using a mysterious drug known as V, they find themselves caught in a brutal struggle for survival.

Directed by Ryan Kruger, STREET TRASH is a visceral, irreverent and unapologetically South African take on dystopian horror. The film brings together social commentary, dark humour, violence and the grotesque to create a world that is both outrageous and unsettlingly familiar.

For this special Halloween edition, AVMN invites audiences to experience STREET TRASH not simply as a horror film, but as a conversation about inequality, power, survival and the kinds of futures we imagine when society begins to fracture.

At the centre of the evening will be director Ryan Kruger, who will join us in person for a special post-screening Q&A. The conversation will explore the making of STREET TRASH, the creation of its dystopian Cape Town, the film's themes and the journey of bringing such an uncompromising vision to the screen.

But this is Halloween so we are not ending when the credits roll.

From 21:00, the night moves from the cinema to the dance floor, with DJ Black taking us into the AVMN Halloween Afterparty.

COME DRESSED UP! ??

Halloween is your invitation to become someone, or something, else for the night.

Come as a vampire. A witch. A deity. A demon. An ancestor. African royalty. A futuristic being. A creature of the night.

Or simply come as the darkest, most fabulous version of yourself.

Go all out. Come glamorous. Come terrifying. Come mysterious. Come completely unexpected.

There is only one rule: COME DRESSED UP.

The more dramatic, the better. ??

Your popcorn and welcome drink are on us! ????

THE EVENING

18:30 Doors Open

19:30 STREET TRASH Screening

21:00 Halloween Afterparty with DJ Black

The Bioscope Independent Cinema

44 Stanley, Johannesburg

31 October 2026

Come for the film.

Stay for the conversation.

Dress for the darkness.

See you at the movies!!!