| UGugu no Andile | |
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| Directed by | Minky Schlesinger |
| Written by | Lodi Matsetela |
| Produced by | Bridget Pickering |
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| Cinematography | Greg Heimann |
| Edited by | Catherine Meyburgh |
| Music by | Warrick Sony |
Production companies | Lunar Films, Fireworks Media |
Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | South Africa |
| Languages | Zulu, Xhosa |
| Budget | 3,500,000 ZAR (estimated) |
UGugu no Andile is a 2008 South African drama film directed by Minky Schlesinger, and starring Daphney Hlomuka, Neil McCarthy & Lungelo Dhladhla. The film received 10 nominations and won 3 awards at the 2009 Africa Movie Academy Awards, including the awards for Best film in an African language, Most Promising Actor and Most Promising Actress. It was also a competitor in the Best TV Feature category at the 2009 FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso, the oldest and largest film festival on the African Continent.[1][2][3]
The story is set in South Africa in 1993, during the upheaval in the struggle for democracy. A sixteen-year-old Zulu girl Gugu is in love with a Xhosa boy Andile, against the wishes of their respective communities.
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- ^ "Gugu and Andile on Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "Gugu and Andile on the iMDB". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 19 March 2014.