Swaziland (now officially Eswatini) has a small but growing filmmaking scene, with local stories beginning to reach wider audiences. Runs in the Family (2023) is among the titles putting Swazi cinema on the map. Have a look at what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.5★
Swaziland (now officially Eswatini) sits landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique, and by the mid-2010s the country was carrying one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the world. The humanitarian consequences of that crisis produced a generation of orphaned children whose stories rarely made it beyond the
Genre Adventure
★★★½ — Runs in the Family (2023)
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