Festival selection / Film
The Wound
- Year
- 2017
- Director
- John Trengove
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genre
- Drama
Synopsis
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
Festival record
- LFF 17 · Sutherland Award, Best First Feature
- BER 17
- VEN 17
BFI London 2017: Sutherland Award, Best First Feature.
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Cast
NakhaneXolani- Bongile MantsaiVija
Niza Jay NcoyiniKwanda- Thobani MseleniBabalo
- Gabriel MiniKhwalo
- Zwelakhe MtsakaElder 1
- Menzeleli MajolaElder 2
- Gamelihle BovanaSicelo
- Halalisani Bradley CebekhuluLukas
- Inga QwedeNcedo
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