Shortlisted for 2018 Academy Awards® for best foreign language film, THE WOUND is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s XHOSA culture.

The story tracks a closeted relationship between two men in the context of the Xhosa initiation ritual of Ulwaluko. Xolani, a factory worker, joins the men of his community at the annual initiation ceremony in the mountains of Eastern Cape. In addition to serving as a mentor to the boys undergoing the ceremony, Xolani looks forward to the annual tradition due to the fact that it provides him the opportunity to reestablish his sexual and romantic relationship with Vija. When Xolani is assigned to be the mentor of Kwanda, a young man from Johannesburg, he quickly realizes that Kwanda is also gay, and Kwanda soon realizes the nature of the relationship between Vija and Xolani. Tensions soon rise between the three men.

Shortlisted for 2018 Academy Awards® for best foreign language film, THE WOUND is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s XHOSA culture.

• dir. John Trengove

• year. 2017

• 88 mins

£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)

Doors 7PM

Film 7.30PM