Jyoti Mistry
Directing · Director · Co-Producer · Screenplay
Active 1997–present
Jyoti Mistry is a South African film director, installation artist, teacher and scholar of Indian ancestry. Her films explore the complexity of racial identity, multiculturalism and gender in modern South Africa through a decolonised lens.
Filmography
The God That Destroys (2026) — Director · WriterWe Come In Peace, They Said (2025) — DirectorLoving In Between (2023) — DirectorCause of Death (2020) — Director · ScreenplayWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man (2017) — DirectorImpunity (2014) — DirectorElelwani (2012) — Co-ProducerYoni (1997) — Director