Find 25 Minutes to Watch This Short About a Young Boy and His Powers

Umkhungo ( The Gift ) is really , really right . It ’s a self - contained fib about Themba , a vernal boy whose powers have branded him cursed . When his parent die , he ends up with a street punk name Mthunzi . The two finally come to an understanding , just as Themba ’s uncles and the federal agency shut down in .

Umkhungo started as one of five scripts Focus Features funded with the now - defunct Africa First programme . It ’s a tiresome burn , to be sure , but filmmaker Matthew Jankes take in slum of Johannesburg Umkhungo is place in and used his surely small budget to great effect . While a utterly contain story , there ’s room to imagine the future for Themba at the ending of the picture .

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