Mother's Day is like nothing you've ever seen.
Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal purpose, but little does he suspect that Mother can retaliate just as powerfully. Based on an old Shona folk tale and rendered as a musical celebrating a diversity of contemporaray Zimbabwean music, Mother's Day is the newest and most exciting motion picture development to come out of Zimbabwe.
produced by Pangolin Films & Nyerai Films
directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
drama, 30 min, 35 mm
Shona with Subtitles in English
First film in the KARE KARE ZVAKO trilogy
selected for numerous filmfestivals worldwide from
Sundance to Seoul to Sao Paulo
Winner of :
GOLDEN DHOW ZANZIBAR 2005
SHORT FILM AWARD CINEMAAFRICANO MILANO 2005
SHORT FILM AWARD ZIFF 2005
Special jury mention:
AMAKULA INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL KAMPALA (UGANDA)
SLOWFOOD ON FILM - CORTO IN BRA FILMFESTIVAL (ITALY)
