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THE WOUND

By John TRENGOVE

Social issues - Production 2016

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Social issues
- Countries
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- John TRENGOVE
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-77A7-0000-G-0000-0000-Q
- EIDR
- 10.5240/D30F-163B-A3A4-BE62-9E6F-J
- Synopsis
- Kwanda, an affluent and urbanized teenager, returns to his father’s rural village to be circumcised during Ukwalukan, an age-old Xhosa initiation ritual that marks a young man’s passage into manhood.
  During the painful healing process, Kwanda is ostracized by the other initiates, but finds support from Xolani, a closeted young caregiver from the village. Vitcha, a volatile young rural man, grows suspicious of the special bond between Xolani and Kwanda and acts out a series of increasingly dangerous and violent power games within the group of initiates.
  When Kwanda finally discovers the reason for Vitcha’s cruelty, a secret relationship between Xolani and Vitcha, a tragic chain of events are set in motion.