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.

Directed by Amil Shivji

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Cast

Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika

Denge

Ikhlas Gafur Vora

Yasmin Fazal

Siti Amina

Mwajuma

Luqman Thani

Pazi

Rasheed Hemed

Mambo

Nick Reding

Inspector Wright

Gabo Zigamba

Koplo Matata

Salum Suleiman

Chande

Abubakr Mrisho

Zanga

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