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Title While We Live
Published Flourishing Films, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 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
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Adam Kanyama, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Marika Lindstr©œm, Richard Sseruwagi, Sten Ljunggren
Event Originally produced by Flourishing Films in 2016
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English,Swedish
Subject Foreign films
Drama
Comedy
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Kouyat©♭, Dani, film director
Larsson Guerpillon, Maria, film director
Kanyama, Adam, actor
Bushell-Mingo, Josette, actor
Lindstr©œm, Marika, actor
Sseruwagi, Richard, actor
Ljunggren, Sten, actor
Flourishing Films (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm),