Elalini (Place of Rest)

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A 30 minute narrative film. Winner of 'Best Foreign Film' at the 33rd Student Academy Awards. Nomakaya, a policewoman, haunted by the memory of the death of a boy and she must decide between the city she lives in and her rural home when her own child needs protecting. Her father, now too weak to look after him, travels to Johannesburg to convince her to return. It is through a street kids, Moses, that she is able to forgive, and resume her responsibilities as a mother.