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Tug of War + Notre mémoire
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"Tug of War / Vuta n’kuvute," by Amil Shivji / Tanzania, South Africa, Germany and Qatar / 2021 / 92mins / Historical Drama / Romance / English and Swahili
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Tug of War / Vuta n’kuvute
Amil Shivji
/ Tanzania, South Africa, Germany and Qatar / 2021
/ 92mins
Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar.
Notre mémoire
Johanna Makabi
/ France / 2021
/ 12mins
Mbissine Thérèse Diop played the starring role in Ousmane Sembène’s landmark first feature, 1966’s Black Girl (La Noire de…). Today, she looks back on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s.