Jonah

Jonah

17 mins | Fantasy | Jan. 16, 2013

Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.

Jonah

17 mins | Fantasy | Jan. 16, 2013

Jonah
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers British Film Institute, BFI Film Fund, Factory Fifteen, Jellyfish Pictures, Shine Pictures, Stray Bear Productions
Original title Jonah
Directors Kibwe Tavares
Writers Jack Thorne

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

as Mbwana

Malachi Kirby

as Juma

Louis Mahoney

as Old Mbwana