iBhokhwe
The Goat | Die Ziege![](/media/filmstills/2014/generation/20147230_2_RWD_1380.jpg)
Quelle: Park Circus, Glasgow, © Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
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Nkosipendule Cengani
iBhokhwe | The Goat | Die Ziege by John Trengove
ZAF 2014, Generation
Quelle: Park Circus, Glasgow, © Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
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Nkosipendule Cengani
iBhokhwe | The Goat | Die Ziege by John Trengove
ZAF 2014, Generation
Quelle: Park Circus, Glasgow, © Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios
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John Trengove
iBhokhwe | The Goat | Die Ziege by John Trengove
ZAF 2014, Generation
Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just undergone circumcision sits in semi-darkness in a simple hut on a hill, far away from the village, as prescribed by the initiation ritual. He is covered from head to toe with a paint made from clay which makes him look as white as a goat. This should be a period of healing, but he is cold and in pain. His grandfather, who is supposed to induct him into his new life, has not yet appeared. According to the belief system of the Xhosa, Ukwaluka also purges the boy from homosexual desires, for which there is no place in the world of adults.
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Raisa Bonnet, Masahiro Ohsuka, Host Stefanie Reis, Nkosipendule Cengani, Vuyo Vundla
The director of the short film Luna Vieja and the director of the animation film rhizome together with the actor and the producer of iBhokhwe.
iBhokhwe · Generation · Feb 12, 2014
iBhokhwe | The Goat | Die Ziege
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