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03 February 2022

Amy Jephta: Barakat (South Africa) 32 Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2022 -Women Filmmakers Week


Amy Jephta
Barakat
South Africa

Comedy - 103 min - 2020

Synopsis
When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending nuptials and come together to voice their disapproval of the match. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé and her daughters in law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on - the barakat.
 
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Amy Jephta is a screenwriter and playwright from Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town
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