Sikelela Tapes (2021)

Name: Sikelela Tapes
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-01-02T18:00:57+01:00

Documentary | 18 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 18 minuten

Country: South Africa

Directed by: Luke Johnstone, Tsogo Kupa, Djibril Cullis, Matthijs Vuijk and Alex Sono

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Sikelela Tapes plot

In this fresh collage of fiction, animation and YouTube videos, full of references to South African past and present, five young students from the film department of Wits University in Johannesburg examine their personal relationship with the national anthem. That song is composed of five languages, which are reflected in the film. What does it mean if you don't understand your own national anthem, one of them wonders. If you do speak the language of the queen, but not your own grandmother? If your grandfather felt like a foreigner in his own country?