On the train to Johannesburg, three very different people experience a harrowing journey to an unforgiving city that devours weakness.
Without money to pay for his fiancée's dowry, Nhlanhla jumps at his cousin’s offer of a hot job in the booming city, until he discovers the true nature of the work. Zanele must bring a young girl, Zodwa, to Johannesburg to be with her mother, and realizes that in doing so she has placed her in terrible danger. And Nkulu has a duty as the oldest son to fetch his migrant worker father’s dead body. A simple, if arduous, task, until he finds that he is not the only one interested in his father’s body.
More than ten years in the making, Vaya is a startling change of tone from Akin Omotoso, the director of the acclaimed, and crowd-pleasing, Tell Me Sweet Something ('15).
Press
”The imagery is truly the film’s star, conveying much of the plot’s underlying tensions through Thathe’s indelible images.’ Awards Circuit
Director’s Biography
Akin Omotoso: Perhaps best known as the star of a popular South African soap opera, Akin Omotoso was born in 1974 and grew up in Nigeria before emigrating to South Africa in 1992. A prolific director, Omotoso counts over a dozen films that he has acted in, produced, or directed since his stage debut in 1995.
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