Shoeshine is colourful and light like a comedy, but the maker also provides social commentary on Dar-es-Salaam’s society and his country, Tanzania. The story is set in a street where a shoeshine man and a bar owner symbolise the rest of the world.
Also in this combined programme
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Adamt
In Ethiopia music is of a different calibre and overcomes the deepest traumas, even deafness. Rhythmic drama. -
A Tropical Sunday
Street children try their luck at the Sunday fair in Maputo. As if Chaplin were still alive and in Mozambique. -
A Hole in the Sky
Fabulous document from the perspective of a Somali goat herd passing from girlhood to womanhood, and who has to make a great sacrifice.
Film details
- Country of production
- Tanzania
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
