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1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
Summary |
Winner of the Critic's Award at **FESPACO** (Africa's largest film festival) and named Best Film by an African Living Abroad at the **African Movie Academy Awards**, WHILE WE LIVE is a powerful narrative film about Kandia, an African woman living in Sweden for 30 years who decides to move back to Gambia. Her adolescent son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity |
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Title from title frames |
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In Process Record |
Performer |
Adam Kanyama, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Marika Lindstr©œm, Richard Sseruwagi, Sten Ljunggren |
Event |
Originally produced by Flourishing Films in 2016 |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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In English,Swedish |
Subject |
Foreign films
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Drama
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Comedy
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Motion pictures
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Feature films.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Kouyat©♭, Dani, film director
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Larsson Guerpillon, Maria, film director
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Kanyama, Adam, actor
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Bushell-Mingo, Josette, actor
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Lindstr©œm, Marika, actor
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Sseruwagi, Richard, actor
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Ljunggren, Sten, actor
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Flourishing Films (Firm),
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Kanopy (Firm),
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