IThemba (film)

iThemba is a featurelength documentary film shot in Zimbabwe, directed and produced by Elinor Burkett and produced by Errol Webber, who also shot and edited the film. It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010.

Shot during and in the wake of the Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 and the countrys economic meltdown by an American, Zimbabwean and Jamaican team, the film unfolds against the backdrop of enormous political tension and the daily struggle to find a bank that actually had cash, to buy food although the store shelves were empty, and to navigate streets pocked with wheelchairmangling potholes.The title of the film means Hope in isiNdebele, one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe. It is drawn from the films title song. ........

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