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THE UMBRELLA MEN

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Film Africa 2022: Audience Award Winner

Musician Jerome Adams returns home to Cape Town for his father’s funeral. There he learns his dad left him the Bo-Kaap community’s beloved Goema Club, as well as leadership of The Umbrella Men minstrel troupe, which all comes with a substantial debt with a bank overdraft soon coming due, threatening the Club with repossession. Aided by friends and family, Jerome plots a bank heist using the annual carnival parade as cover. 

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Audience Award Narrative Features
calendar 29th Oct 2022
location RITZY PICTUREHOUSE

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Language(s): English with English Subtitles

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