Tug of War
New York African Film Festival 2022
May 12 - 17, 2022
Passion and revolution ensues in this coming-of-age political love story involving a young freedom fighter set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Preceded by Johanna Makabi’s Notre mémoire.
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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.
Preceded by:
Notre mémoire
U.S. Premiere
Johanna Makabi, 2021, France, 12m
French with English subtitles
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