The Unstirred Pot
Drama Afro Surreal, 2025
FILM PRODUCTION DETAILS
Experimental Festival
AFDA Study Year: 2025
Genre: Drama Afro Surreal
Rating: PG
Viewing Restriction: A
Bomikazi, a young black woman, battles against the societal expectations that confine her to a life of servitude and silence. She grapples with imposed roles, institutional erasure, and the burden of history in a surreal odyssey through an abandoned house, a haunting forest, and a sterile corporate boardroom. Guided by an enigmatic old woman, she faces a choice: Surrender to the mold society has cast for her or forge her own path. As she reclaims her voice and identity, she steps boldly into the future, refusing to remain unseen.
CAST
Nosipho Ngwenya - Bomikazi
Khanya Monamodi - Nothemba
CREW
Writer - Winifred hMensa
Director - Gomolemo Diale & Winifred hMensa
Executive Producer - AFDA
Associate Producer - Perkin-John Leukes
Associate Producer - Mpho Mahlaka
Cinematographer - Hannah-Rayne Blok and Katleho Maamoe
Production Designer - Dipolelo Matshabisa
Costume, Make-up and Styling - Wema Mwangi
Editor - Andrea Jacobs
Sound Design - Lwando Ntlabati
Composer - Yamba Mabunda
Visual Effects - Prashanthi Pillay
Data Wrangler - Ncomimk Mkandla
Colourist/Grader - Bongisipho Mtimkulu
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