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Name: Life, Above All
Released: 2011-3-11
Cast: Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Lerato Mvelase, Tinah Mnumzana, Aubrey Poolo

Life, Above All

PG-13
1h 46m
2011

82%

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Just after the death of her newly-born baby sister, Chanda, 12 years old, learns of a rumor that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. It destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Sensing that the gossip stems from prejudice and superstition, Chanda leaves home and school in search of her mother and the truth.

Director:

Oliver Schmitz

Producer:

Oliver Stoltz

Writer:

Dennis Foon

Cast:

Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Lerato Mvelase, Tinah Mnumzana, Aubrey Poolo, Mapaseka Mathebe, Thato Kgaladi

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Reviews

CineVue

Lucy Popescu

Manyaka is enormously affecting as Chanda, stubborn, passionate, strong and fragile in equal measure. She is supported by a superb cast.

Mostly this is a film that seems genuine and true.

A gripping African drama about a child who has to grow up too fast, who has to keep her family together and alive, and has come to terms with the AIDS stigma that her neighbors place on them.

Art with heart.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Philip Martin