Film – Decolonising Global Health Archive

Written and directed by Darrell Roodt

Yesterday is a 2004 South African drama film that tells the story of a young mother, Yesterday (Leleti Khumalo), who discovers she has AIDS. Her husband, a migrant mine labourer, rejected her despite being the one that infected her. Her ambition is to live long enough to see her daughter, Beauty, go to school.

This film is the first commercial feature-length production in Zulu. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 77th Academy Awards and won Best Sound and Best Editing at the inaugural Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Watch the film here.

Ek Jagah Apni (‘A Place of Our Own’) is a film set in the city of Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh, India) and offers a glimpse into the lives of the transgender community in the city. Part of the Museum of Art and Photography’s exhibition ‘Visible/Invisible: Representation of Women in Art through the MAP Collection’, the movie follows the journey of two trans women in their quest for an apartment as well as for a space in society.

Presenting a slice of reality and shot in a realistic style, it is a story of an artistic expression of people who are the subjects of the film as well as the tellers of their own story as actors, co-writers, and the cast and crew that comprise the filmmaking process.

Read more and explore the museum’s website here.

Category: Film

Yesterday (2004)

Ek Jagah Apni – A Place of Our Own