NOMA

Directed by: Pablo Pinedo Bóveda

Winner of The Amnesty International Human Rights Award at this year's Durban International Film Festival.

Noma (Nomaliphathwe Gwele)  is a young black woman that represents a huge portion of the post-apartheid South African youth: surviving with a precarious job, living in a township in Cape Town and renting a shack that she shares with four other people. She is a strong woman who carries stoically the charge of being a single mother with two children; one of whom is a semi-paraplegic and blind disabled baby. What she wants, is to improve her life and her family’s life. She joins a group in a land occupation action, to build her own shack in the new slum, risking violent evictions and other obstacles.