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Maangamizi: The Ancient One

Name: Maangamizi: The Ancient One
Released: 2001

2001

An American doctor working at a Tanzanian psychiatric hospital grows fascinated by a mysterious, often catatonic patient who seems in touch with an ancestral spirit world, drawing the doctor into a reckoning with African tradition and her own life. A mystical drama.

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Part of 8 Essential Films from Tanzania

This film is stop 5 of 8 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Tanzania. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Tanzania in the 196 country film challenge.