Mary Twala

Acting

Mary Twala

Born September 14, 1939 · Soweto, South Africa

Died July 4, 2020 · aged 80

No biography available.

Known For

The Dark TowerThe Dark Tower · 2017
The Dark Tower
★ 5.82017
MovieFantasyAction
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Black Is KingBlack Is King · 2020
Black Is King
★ 7.12020
MovieMusic
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Hector and the Search for HappinessHector and the Search for Happiness · 2014
Hector and the Search for Happiness
★ 6.72014
MovieAdventureDrama
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Sarafina!Sarafina! · 1992
Sarafina!
★ 6.21992
MovieMusicDrama
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
MapantsulaMapantsula · 1988
Mapantsula
★ 7.01988
MovieCrimeDrama
A petty gangster inevitably becomes involved in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and is forced to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
FreedomFreedom · 2018
Freedom
2018
MovieDrama
Freedom (inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment) is set in contemporary Johannesburg against the #FeesMustFall student movement. It explores the paradoxical, often limited, notion of "freedom" for born-free South African youth, focusing on the harsh realities of post-apartheid life.
This Is Not a Burial, It's a ResurrectionThis Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection · 2020
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
★ 7.42020
MovieDrama
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
Beat the DrumBeat the Drum · 2003
Beat the Drum
★ 7.62003
MovieDrama
Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp.

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