The sixth short opener for the Annecy Festival, produced in collaboration with our African partners "The Animation School" and "Tshimologong Precinct."
A short allegorical animated film. A strange dog steals Ugandan village boy Akello's precious kalimba. Akello follows after it and finds himself in the clutches of the Sugarcane Man.
Under the shadow of a mysterious Mountain in a remote part of South Africa, where legends of the local Bapedi people say that those who go there never come back, Thato has to face her fears in order to save her sick brother.