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International Lens Film Series

Posted by on Monday, November 6, 2017 in Archives, News.

Inxeba (the Wound)

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. 

Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240

Presented by Tara McKay, Assistant Professor – Center for Medicine, Health & Society, Department of Sociology, and the Department of Health Policy.

South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France (2017) Dir: John Trengove.

Inxeba follows
 a young factory worker living in the Eastern 
Cape of South Africa. When he and other men 
from his community gather in the mountains to
 observe an initiation ritual transitioning a group
 of teenage boys to manhood, a defiant initiate 
from the city discovers his secret, a forbidden relationship with another man in the community, and his entire existence begins to unravel. Xhosa/Afrikaans/English. 88 min. Blu-Ray.

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, and the Africa TIPS Project.