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      Life, Above All

      PG-13 Released Jul 15, 2011 1h 42m Drama List
      82% 73 Reviews Tomatometer 82% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A 12-year-old girl (Khomotso Manyaka) fights prejudice when her family is ostracized by a South African community. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Aug 29 Buy Now

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      Deborah Ross The Spectator Mostly this is a film that seems genuine and true. Aug 31, 2018 Full Review Dwight Brown National Newspaper Publishers Association The film plays out like a modern allegory with strong life lessons. This an emotionally satisfying and cleansing first-hand experience about that scourge called AIDS. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 24, 2011 Full Review Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle What makes it bearable but also beautiful and stirring is the central performance by the preteen, first-time actor Khomotso Manyaka. Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 23, 2011 Full Review Lucy Popescu CineVue Manyaka is enormously affecting as Chanda, stubborn, passionate, strong and fragile in equal measure. She is supported by a superb cast. Rated: 4/5 Dec 14, 2018 Full Review Roger Moore Tribune News Service A gripping African drama about a child who has to grow up too fast, who has to keep her family together and alive, and has come to terms with the AIDS stigma that her neighbors place on them. Rated: 3/4 Jan 11, 2013 Full Review James Plath Movie Metropolis Art with heart. Rated: 8/10 Jan 5, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Powerful film about the ravages of AIDS; young Manyaka is amazing. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Should be called Love, Above All. Khomotso Manyaka is a gem. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member The contrast of AIDS-related films from the U.S. and Africa is stark. Because of the epidemic in South Africa, the fear of and animosity toward those infected creates dire living conditions and outright ostracism. This film provides a glimmer of hope through education, compassion and sheer will. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member "Life above all" gives us a vision what is living with AIDS in the rural area of South Africa where there is myths and discrimination about the diseaseand the peole who suffers it. The film is spoken in Northern Sotho, that gives a special feeling of more autenticity. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member I really want to watch this movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member First of all the acting in this film is simply amazing, this is probably the best "mother / daughter relationship " movie that I have ever seen, made with no money, in THE poorest continent in the world and with superb results, YEAH!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Harriet Manamela as Mrs. Tafa in "Life, Above All." (L-R) Harriet Manamela as Mrs. Tafa and Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." Aubrey Poolo as Jonah in "Life, Above All." (L-R) Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda and Lerato Mvelase as Lilian in "Life, Above All." Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." Mandla Ernest Mokoena as Sipho and Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." (L-R) Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda and Lerato Mvelase as Lilian in "Life, Above All." (L-R) Mary Twala as Mrs. Gulubane, Mapaseka Mathebe as Iris, Thato Kgaladi as Soly, Harriet Manamela as Mrs. Tafa, Lerato Mvelase as Lilian and Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." (L-R) Keaobaka Makanyane as Esther and Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." Khomotso Manyaka as Chanda in "Life, Above All." View more photos

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A 12-year-old girl (Khomotso Manyaka) fights prejudice when her family is ostracized by a South African community.
      Director
      Oliver Schmitz
      Producer
      Helge Sasse
      Screenwriter
      Dennis Foon
      Distributor
      Sony Pictures Classics
      Production Co
      Enigma, Senator Film Produktion GmbH
      Rating
      PG-13 (Some Sexual Content|Mature Thematic Material)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 15, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 7, 2013
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $134.1K
      Runtime
      1h 42m
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