Stefanie Sycholt, South Africa 2010, 108 min
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in Dar es Salaam the Cinema for Peace Foundation has organized a screening of the film “Themba – A Boy called Hope”.
Cinema for Peace shows valuable films dealing with humanitarian, social and political issues and brings it to a large public.
The movie tells the story of a talented boy named Themba, who dreams of becoming a soccer star. However, the reality in his South African village is far away from his life-long dreams: Themba and his family are suffering from poverty, unemployment and the denial of the omnipresent disease AIDS. Thanks to football and the clinging to his dreams, Themba succeeds to venture on the first peak of his promising football career the bold and liberating step to deal openly and life affirmingly with his own rape and HIV infection.
The intention of Cinema for Peace with this project is not to stop the spread of HIV but to stem the discrimination that young men and women with AIDS/HIV, or with family members suffering from this, face in their societies. The aim is to tackle this disease by raising awareness.
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