Jonah

2013 | 17 minutes | 5.7 ★ (20)

Jonah
  • Overview

    Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.

  • Release Date

    16 January 2013

  • DirectingKibwe Tavares
  • Budget

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  • Revenue

    $0.00

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