Cinema
Kauna's Way
Vickson Hangula · 1999
Synopsis
Kauna, a young woman who already bears the burden of a family, and Priscilla, who still lives with her parents and has only her studies to see to, meet while studying and become friends. This friendship begins just as each of them has to make decisive choices for her life, and the film sets two youths with very unequal responsibilities face to face, in the Namibia of the late nineties.
Context
Shot on video and co-produced by Home Brewed Productions, in Windhoek, and the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, the film runs forty-five minutes and is in English. Vickson Hangula wrote it with Ggcinaphi Dlamini; Frida Karipi, Naomi Boys and Frederick Philander act in it. It was shown in 2000 at the Montreal and Amiens festivals. Africiné dates it to 1999, IMDb to 2000, the year of its release in Zimbabwe.
Who it is for
A short drama in English, centred on two young women and on the difficult choices that await them.
Prizes and reception
Its director regards it as the film that earned him, at the time, his first international prize.
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