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Mwansa the Great

Short Films • 23m

While trying to prove he is a hero, Mwansa does the unforgivable and accidentally breaks his big sister Shula’s special mud doll. He goes on a quest not only to fix it, but to finally prove he is Mwansa the Great.

DIRECTED BY RUNGANO NYONI
UNITED KINGDOM, ZAMBIA | 2011 | NYANJA WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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