1745
Two sisters kidnapped from their home and sold into slavery attempt to retake their freedom.
19'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
- Director
- Jyoti Mistry
- Countries of production
- South Africa, Austria
- Production Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 10'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Florian Schattauer
- Production Company
- Shadowy Meadows Productions
- Sales
- Shadowy Meadows Productions
- Screenplay
- Jyoti Mistry, Kgafela oa Magogodi
- Cinematography
- Craig Maarschalk
- Editor
- Nikki Comninos
- Sound Design
- Peter Cornell
- Cast
- Ben Tjibe, Kgafela oa Magogodi
Programme
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