Makaburi Yatasema (Only Stones Are Talking) [film]
Summary
This is a community-based and community-created film which deals with the stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS patients. Stigmitisation is placed within the context of the fact that many people still practice the same risky behaviour that leads to someone acquiring HIV/AIDS.
In the film, two women who were with the same man who apparently died of HIV/AIDS return to the village where they were born. One is quite sick; the other has tested positive, but is so pretty that when she returns to the village, everyone wants to go out with her. The one who is sick gets terrible treatment, and even her parents are segregated in the village.
In the end the truth comes out but it still leaves the viewer with the question of whether or not HIV/AIDS patients can have courage to come out in the open. The film is in the Kiswahili language, subtitled in English. It is available on Beta, but other formats can be made available.
Produced by: Tanzania Media for Development Trust
Contact
Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site April 21 2004
Last Updated June 30 2009
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