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The Gift

Who are you without a home?

8.0(2)20171h 25m1

Mashoto’s life in the city is a hustle. It’s a fast life in the fast city of Dar es Salaam. There’s no time to stop and Mashoto likes it this way. There’s no time to think about the people he left behind in the village. Until silence cuts through the city racket with three words: mother has died. With those words Mashoto’s life changes forever. He returns home, to the place he abandoned, to bury his only ally. Yet his mother has left behind a gift. Her voice, her unseen presence, a gentle whisper urging him to open his eyes and strain his ears- to learn the lessons of nature, of the earth and the roots that draw their nourishment from it. Cast out by his father after losing the little money his mother had left, Mashoto must learn to survive from the land. He must learn to face old enemies and forge new alliances, to fight and to love. Most of all, Mashoto must discover what it is he is fighting for.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Swahili
  • tanzania
  • agriculture

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Behind the camera

Director

Jordan Riber

Produced in

Tanzania

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Release dates

  • FranceFR

    • Digital / OTT10Netflix21 Jan 2022
  • TanzaniaTZ

    • Digital / OTT3 Nov 2017

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The Gift was released on 3 November 2017.

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