Zimbabwe documentary to Premiere at Dok Leipzig

You Can't Hide From The Truth
Director/Producer: A.a.V. Amasi
Duration: 28 minutes
Country: Zimbabwe/UK/Poland/Finland/Greece


AWARD-NOMINATED FILM TO SCREEN IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY ON THE 04/11/2016 and the 05/11/2016: DOK LEIPZIG will hold a public screening of the award-nominated documentary film

You Can't Hide From The Truth on 04/11/2016 at 10:00 at Passage Kinos Astoria and 05/11/2016 at 11:00 at Schaubühne Lindenfels.

The film, by National Film And Television School graduate and award-nominated documentary filmmaker A.a.V. Amasi ("Chauya Chauya - A Risky Life") observes life in Zimbabwe from an insider's gaze.  The documentary has generated powerful, often emotional, response from its first screening at the London Picture House to its most recent showing in Santiago de Compostela, Spain at Womex

Blind musician, Daniel Gonora, was once part of Zimbabwe's largest touring group, Jairos Jiri Band. More than 20 years later, he performs music on the streets with his young gifted son Isaac on makeshift drums.

You Can't Hide From The Truth; is a touching film about a father and son struggling to make do making music in Zimbabwe. Early on, the duos are seen busking to large audiences, playing great music, but never receiving anything for their efforts. In one of the more uncomfortable moments, the boy, malnourished and exhausted, continues to drum past the point of exhaustion while his punters, who have no more money than he does, will him on verbally but without remuneration. Realising the problems of Zimbabwe's economic and political situation without him specifically referring to them, You Can't Hide From The Truth shows a national situation through the most intimate of approaches.  A well shot, tightly edited story led by two very compelling lead subjects, Amasi follows the pair through their struggles, ending with the father and his old recording band putting together a new record, the studio time funded by a last chance. The son isn't chosen as the drummer on the album, but finds a way to step up and make his mark on the project anyway.
 
Nominations

One World Media Award


Screenings

London PictureHouse (February)
Jecheon Music Film Festival (August)
Womex (October)
Dok Leipzig (November)
Doc 'n' Roll (November)

 
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