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.
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Fear Fokol
BY
Tuva Björk
About the artist
Tuva Björk (1994, Helsinki) is a visual artist and hybrid filmmaker based in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2025, her and Sally Jacobsons feature film Unanimal and her short Fear Fokol were both in competition at CPH:DOX. Fear Fokol won the prize for Best Swedish Short film at Uppsala Short filmfestival, the New Doc prize at Tempo Documentary Festival and has since been selected for IDFA, DOK Leipzig and Encounters SA, etc. Tuva runs the film gathering Sundays with Sally & Tuva and is one of the founders of the production company Bank AB.