Zulu Love Letter

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Zulu Love Letter
Directed by Ramadan Suleman
Produced by JBA Production
Screenplay by Ramadan Suleman, Bhekizizwe Peterson
Starring Pamela Nomvete Marimbe, Mangi Mpumi Malatsi, Me’Tau, Sophie Mgcina, Moola Kurt Egelhof
Music by Zim Ngqawana
Cinematography Manuel Teran
Edited by Jacques Comets
Release dates
2004
Running time
105'
Country France
Germany
South Africa

Zulu Love Letter is a 2004 film.

Synopsis

Thandeka, a young black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg’s past. She’s so troubled that she can’t work, and her relationship with Mangi, her 13-year-old deaf daughter, goes from bad to worse. One day Me’Tau, an elderly woman, arrives at the newspaper’s office. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of Me’Tau’s daughter, Dineo, by the secret police. Me’Tau wants Thandeka to find the murderers and Dineo’s body so that the girl can be buried in accordance with tradition. What Me’Tau couldn’t know is that Thandeka has already paid for her knowledge, for having dared stand up to the apartheid system run by the whites. Meanwhile, Mangi secretly prepares a Zulu love letter, four embroidered images representing solitude, loss, hope, and love, as a final gesture towards her mother so that she won’t give up the fight.

Awards

  • Cartago 2004
  • Mons 2005
  • FESPACO 2005
  • Cape Town World Cinema 2005
  • Angers 2005

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