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Genres:
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Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Shamim Sarif
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Actors:
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Bernard White,
Grethe Fox,
Rajesh Gopie,
Lisa Ray,
Sheetal Sheth,
Parvin Dabas,
Nandana Sen,
David Dennis,
Colin Moss,
Natalie Becker
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)115
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Plot Summary:
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Set in 1950s South Africa at the beginning of apartheid, unrestrained-energetic Amina has broken all the rules of her own everyday Indian community and the green apartheid-led regime, alongside competition a caf? with Jacob, her black business partner. When she meets Miriam, a uninitiated better half and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to definitely the rules that bind her to a traditional position. As Amina helps Miriam's sister-in-law to shroud from the police, a chain of events is designate in motion that changes both women forever.
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The World Unseen
Sapphism flourishes against the backdrop of 1950s apartheid in this period drama
This simply could not be any worthier: the chief keywords here being South Africa; apartheid; multiculturalism. And lesbians. A richly textured 12-part epic might be constructed around that tidy grouping, but author Shamim Sarif gave us a single award-winning novel instead, based on her grandmother's recollections of 1950s Cape Town. Less agreeably, and most unusually for a writer, she has also been given free hand to script and direct her own movie adaptation. Really bad move.
Fiercely independent Amina (played by the Indian-American Sheetal Sheth) literally wears the trousers as owner of a Cape Town caf?© in 1952. She's always getting into trouble with the police for serving "blecks"...
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