TUG OF WAR

VUTA N'KUVUTE

By Amil SHIVJI

NIKO FILM - as PROD

Second film - Completed 2021

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. 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 escalate.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021
FESPACO 2021
Winner, Oumarou Ganda Prize
Mashariki African Film Festival 2021
Winner, Best Long Feature Fiction
Santa Barbara IFF 2022
Pan African Film Festival 2022
Seattle International Film Festival 2022
Winner, Special Jury Prize
Milwaukee International Film Festival 2022
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2022
Winner, Best Film, Best East African Feature, Best Actor
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Second film, Drama
    • Countries
    • TANZANIA, SOUTH AFRICA, QATAR, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • SWAHILI, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Amil SHIVJI
    • Producer(s)
    • Steven MARKOVITZ (BIG WORLD CINEMA), Amil SHIVJI (KIJIWENI PRODUCTIONS)