Event details
Fung Film Screening | Amil Shivji's film "Tug of War"
April 12, 2023 | 4.30 - 6.30 PM | Louis A. Simpson 144
- The first Tanzanian film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- Tanzania's second entry ever, for the Academy Awards Best International Feature category.
- Awarded the Tanit d'Or, the top prize at Tunisia's Carthage Film Festival, November 2022.
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..."
The film screening will be followed by a conversation with the Indian-origin Tanzanian filmmaker Amil Shivji.
Convened by: Veda Vaidyanathan, Fung Global Fellow, PIIRS
Food Provided (Movie snacks and refreshments)
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