Childhood friends Madiba and Sipho discover a dead man; in his case he has a gun and a digital camera. The streetwise Sipho takes the gun while the more timid Madiba takes the camera. This is the turning point in their young lives. Sipho and his gun spark off spiral of violence while Madiba secretly becomes a proficient video-artist. When both befriend a rebellious white girl it leads to bitter rivalry. Winner of the Crystal Bear at Berlin in 2004, this charming and accessible film has a warm humanity and fresh eye in looking at ghetto-life. Screen International wrote, “an intelligent film that crosses over between adult and child audiences… Many of its themes have universal qualities way beyond South Africa’s ghettos: the colour-blind ubiquity of good and evil… and the difficult choices we all have to make as we emerge from the innocence of childhood.”
