VUTA N'KUVUTE (TUG OF WAR)

By Amil Shivji

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. 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 escalate.

Additional Information

Title

VUTA N'KUVUTE (TUG OF WAR)

Director

Amil Shivji

Country

Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Qatar

Year

2021

Category

Narrative Features

Duration

93

Language

Swahili, English with English subtitles

Actors

Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika, Ikhlas Gafur Vora, Siti Amina