zola-drum-poster

City: Kolkata
Location: 217, A.J.C Bose Road
Date: Wed, 2012/05/23 – 6:00pm
Price: Free
Category: Film screening
Duration: 2 Hours

Alliance francaise du Bengale
Ciné Afrique
cordially invites you to the screening of
Drum
a film by Zola Maseko
2005 – South Africa
 
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 | 6 pm
Synopsis:

Drum tells the story of Henry Nxumalo, a renowned journalist in Sophiatown, a symbolic area of Johannesburg, famous for its cultural resistance. Despite the constant harassment of the police, Nxumalo risks his life by denouncing the treatment of Black people who lived and worked during this time of segregation.