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The Wound (Xhosa: Inxeba[5] Xhosa pronunciation: [íŋǁeːɓa]) is a 2017 South African drama film directed by John Trengove. [6] It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival [7] and the Panorama section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. [8] The film opened the Tel Aviv International ...
August 16, 2017. 5 min read. “The Wound” is set in a remote rural community in South Africa, and is centered on a cultural ritual that will no doubt strike most outsiders as being barbaric. At the same time, however, it is also a film that deals with issues of masculinity, sexuality and community that will strike universal chords with ...
Sep 20, 2017 · This week South Africa must decide which of its films to submit for the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film category. Likely, it’ll come down to a choice between The Wound, which has ...
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Jan 21, 2017 · Trengove’s film is harsher and more complicated than that, sensitive to the hard taboo that homosexuality remains in black South African culture — “The Wound’s” sexually frank depiction ...
The Wound: Directed by John Trengove. With Nakhane, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni. Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
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- Drama, Romance
- John Trengove
- 2017-04-19
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.
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Apr 27, 2018 · Pared down almost to silence by the end, Nakhane Touré as Xolani proves emphatically that less can be more. You could say exactly the same about the film as a whole: The Wound impresses for its raw, incremental power. Overleaf: watch the trailer for The Wound. The title of South African director John Trengove’s powerful first feature works ...
