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WALK WITH ANGELS

SPACER Z ANIOŁMI

AP MANANA - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

A hero of the fight against apartheid is looking for a baby abducted in the township of Soweto. The search leads him into the dark corners of Johannesburg and the painful spaces of his soul.

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Seminci - Valladolid IFF 2021
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • POLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Synopsis
    • Twenty five years after the overthrow of apartheid, Johannesburg and the surrounding townships became a place of daily disappearances of children. Life and death have a different value and dimension when the reality is soaked in violence and the spirits of ancestors.
      Many children run away or are thrown out of their homes by troubled relatives living in unstable relationships. Some are being abducted for trade or child prostitution, others are being killed for organs, sold either for transplants or for witchcraft. Local police rarely does anything about it. When a child disappears, it disappears forever. But sometimes there is hope – his name is Jerry, and he single-handedly looks for abducted children.
      In Walk With Angels we follow Jerry on his mission.
      One day, Jerry gets word that a baby was kidnapped from a Soweto slum. The community suspects that the mother sold her daughter, but Jerry knows otherwise. When he visits the witch doctor, the spirits of ancestors reveal that the girl is still alive, but Jerry is warned that if he finds the child, the lives of the mother or the aunt might be at risk. In his search, Jerry explores the darkness and ventures into areas avoided by the police. There he finds five witnesses who help him reconstruct the events of the day of Angie’s kidnapping.
      The search brings painful memories that haunt Jerry. Memories of his early life on the streets of Johannesburg as a homeless child, of being recruited by the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress as a teenage guerrilla. It was then that he was injured in an explosion. He became a hero of the fight against the apartheid regime, but when the regime collapsed, he ended up on the streets of Johannesburg again, desolate.
      As Jerry confronts his past, his soul is being revealed. Understanding his motivations helps us understand why he enters this dangerous world. After few years he finds out that the baby is alive and her name was changed to Phathutshedzo. It means “blessing” in Venda language…
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