Engineers Without Borders (Vancouver) present: June Film Night featuring: “Yesterday” written and directed by Darrell Roodt
About the Film:
Yesterday tells the story of a poor, young HIV-positive mother struggling to raise her daughter alone in a desolate landscape, while coming to terms with her imminent death from AIDS.
The beautifully-shot drama is set in the rolling hills of Zululand in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa – a picturesque but harsh territory – and is the first international film made in the local Zulu language.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has endorsed the film as a story of courage, compassion and hope, and as a resource for use across it’s Social Development Programme in it’s commitment to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and highlight the need to remove stigma and discrimination.
The only film in history to be nominated both for an Academy Award and for an Emmy Award
For more information please visit the Engineers Without Borders Vancouver website