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Film Screening | 'Tug of War' (Vuta n'Kuvute) by Amil Shivji

by Fung Global Fellows Program, PIIRS

Forum/Panel Discussion Global/Intercultural

Wed, Apr 12, 2023

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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April 12, 2023 | 4.30 - 6.30 PM | Louis A. Simpson 144

 

  • The first Tanzanian film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

  • Tanzania's second entry ever, for the Academy Awards Best International Feature category. 

  • Awarded the Tanit d'Or, the top prize at Tunisia's Carthage Film Festival, November 2022.

Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar..."

The film screening will be followed by a conversation with the Indian-origin Tanzanian filmmaker Amil Shivji.

 

Convened by: Veda Vaidyanathan, Fung Global Fellow, PIIRS 

Food Provided (Movie snacks and refreshments)

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in African Studies, Program in South Asian Studies

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