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THE OTHER MAN'S GARDEN

O JARDIM DO OUTRO HOMEM

By Sol DE CARVALHO

FADO FILMES - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2006

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- MOZAMBIQUE
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Sol DE CARVALHO
- Writer(s)
- Gonçalo GALVÃO TELES, Sol DE CARVALHO, Joana SMITH
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-F3C0-0000-3-0000-0000-S
- Producer(s)
- Luís GALVÃO TELES (FADO FILMES), Serge ZEITOUN (Les FILMS DE MAI), Francisco CARNEIRO (PROMARTE)
- Synopsis
- Sofia is a 19-year old girl who lives in a poor suburb of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. In her country, AIDS has become a national calamity, while men still reject the use of condoms.
  Born in a very poor family, Sofia endures hardship every day to complete her schooling. She badly wants to enter University in order to fulfil her dream: to become a physician.
  Her hardship worsens when a teacher starts sexually harassing her. She suspects he might be HIV-positive, yet the man stops at nothing, even manipulating the results of her final exam in Biology to force her to yield to his advances.
  Her saga unfolds in a society in which, as Sofia’s mother and sister keep saying, to encourage a woman to study is tantamount to “watering another man’s garden”…