Beat the Drum (2003)

Directors

David Hickson

Cast

Junior Singo, Owen Sejake, Mary Twala, Clive Scott

The story

A young South African orphan named Musa leaves his AIDS-ravaged village in KwaZulu-Natal, taking only a drum given to him by his late father, for the gritty streets of Johannesburg, in search of work and his uncle. Musa encounters friendship and kindness but also struggles against criminality and indifference. In the midst of the epidemic, a young philanthropic lawyer from a privileged family learns he has AIDS, and a truck driver's sexual proclivities endanger the health of his wife.

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