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Released
2015 · FILM

Greetings to the Ancestors

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Runtime
29 min
DocumentaryShort

Synopsis

Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, *Greetings to the Ancestors* documents the dream lives of the territory’s inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand. (Ben Russell)

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Edited by Ben Russell

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