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Nyab Siab Zoo (2009)

Actors: Abel Vang (director), Abel Vang (editor), Mee Yang Vang (editor), Mee Yang Vang (writer), Mee Yang Vang (costume designer), Ko Yang (composer), Burlee Vang (writer), Ia Lee (actor), Naoshoua Vang (writer), Mee Her (actor), Pha Thao (actor), Ha Vang (actor), Brenda Thao (producer), Albert Thao (producer),

Plot: After the death of Lady Va Cha's husband and two sons, she returns to the northern lands of her husband's clan. Of her two daughters-in-law, one decides to follow her into a marginal village existence in a steeply patriarchal society. Nyab Siab Zoo (The Good-hearted Daughter) is a tale of two widows bounded by lost and love.

Genres: Drama,

Backanterna (1993)

Actors: Peter Stormare (actor), Ingmar Bergman (director), Ingmar Bergman (miscellaneous crew), Euripides (writer), Sylvia Ingemarsson (editor), Per Mattsson (actor), Ellen Andreassen Jensen (actress), Måns Reuterswärd (producer), Carl Magnus Dellow (actor), Donya Feuer (miscellaneous crew), Göran O. Eriksson (writer), Kicki Bramberg (actress), Sten Wahlund (actor), Sylvia Lindenstrand (actress), Anita Soldh (actress),

Genres: ,

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Actors: Jamie Uys (producer), Jamie Uys (actor), Ken Gampu (actor), Marius Weyers (actor), Jamie Uys (editor), Brian O'Shaughnessy (actor), Jamie Uys (director), Jamie Uys (writer), Graham Armitage (actor), Sandra Prinsloo (actress), Daan Retief (miscellaneous crew), Katinka Heyns (actress), Louw Verwey (actor), Nic de Jager (actor), Boet Troskie (producer),

Plot: A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist.

Keywords: africa, animal, awkward-relationship, awkwardness, baboon, banana, banana-tree, bazooka, bike, border-crossing
Genres: Action, Comedy,
Taglines: The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop! At last, a comedy everyone can laugh with! - A sly comedy from Africa - It's PRIMITIVE! . . . It's POIGNANT! . . . It's PERTURBING! but it will make you laugh, cheer and shout!

Quotes:

Mpudi: I'm teaching him how to drive, just for the hell of it. There's nothing else to do around here.

Boga: We must save ammunition, set your guns to single fire. [Pointing and explaining a gun to his henchmen] Look see. This is single fire, this is automatic. Why do I have to work with amateurs?

Narrator: They must be the most contented people in the world. They have no crime, no punishment, no violence, no laws, no police, judges, rulers or bosses. They believe that the gods put only good and useful things on the earth for them to use.

Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again. And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...::[Kate looks for a place to have her lunch]::Kate Thompson: [to a woman] Is this seat taken?::[the woman moves over and Kate takes a seat]::Woman in the lunchroom: Does the noise in my head bother you?::Kate Thompson: No...::[Later, Kate finds Pete]::Kate Thompson: Still got that story about the teacher shortage in Botswana?::Pete: Yeah, you gonna use it?::Kate Thompson: No. Maybe they can use me.::Narrator: But in the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like, or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that.

Narrator: The rhino is the self appointed fire prevention officer. When he sees a fire, he rushes in and stamps it out.

Mpudi: [looking at Steyn in a suit] And why are you so beautiful?::Steyn: I'm going to the school to give her these.::Mpudi: You gonna look like that?::Steyn: Like what?::Mpudi: Like it's a funeral. You've gotta smile, man, and tell her she looks good.::Steyn: How come suddenly you're an expert on women?::Mpudi: I got seven wives. How many you got?::Steyn: So why aren't you at home with your seven wives?::Mpudi: I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.::Steyn: So, what did you marry them for?::Mpudi: Someday I have to tell you the facts of life...

Mpudi: [Steyn and Mpudi are looking at the Landrover, which is dangling from a tree by its winch] So how did this thing get up the tree?::Steyn: She was stuck in a watape tree, and I... do you know she has flowers in her panties?::Mpudi: So that's how this thing got up the tree.

Mpudi: He talks about an evil thing.

Narrator: The most inquisitive creature in Africa is the baboon. [a baboon swipes the Coke bottle from Xi and is subsequently chased, and climbs a tree]::Narrator: Xi said, "That is a very evil thing you've got. You better give it back so I can take it and throw it off the earth. It brought unhappiness to my family. If you don't give it to me it'll bring grief to you and your family too." He spoke long and earnestly until the baboon began to pay attention. He must have convinced it, and it dropped the thing. And Xi said, "You have done a very wise thing."

[Xi has been thrown in jail]::Mpudi: They gave him the death sentence.::Steyn: For shooting a GOAT?::Mpudi: No. Three months in jail. Same thing, he gonna die for sure. He never seen a wall in his life, now he got walls all round him.