Tug of War

Tug of War

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 9, 2021

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.

Tug of War

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 9, 2021

Tug of War
A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.
Producers NiKo Film, Big World Cinema, Kijiweni Productions
Original title Vuta N'Kuvute
Directors Lilian Sundqvist, Rita Wachera, Cece Mlay, Amil Shivji
Writers Amil Shivji, Jenna Cato Bass

Cast

Ikhlas Gafur Vora

as Yasmin

Siti Amina

as Mwajuma

Luqman Thani

as Pazi

Rasheed Hemed

as Mambo