A film by Fredrik Gertten & Sylvia Vollenhoven
A CO-PRODUCTION :
WG Films (Sweden)
Vision in Africa (South-Africa)
Backstory media (Backstory Media)
WITH SUPPORT FROM & IN ASSOCIATION WITH :
Swedish Film Institute, Jannik Splidsboel/Anna Weitz
City of Malmö
The Creative Europe programme of the European Union
PRODUCER :
Margarete Jangård
Julien Coquet
COMPOSERS :
Florencia Di Concilio
Garth Erasmus
EDITOR :
Benjamin Binderup
CINEMATOGRAPHY :
Janice d’Avila
Teaser :
In South Africa, XAU is a word from an extinct Bushman language.
It means to shoot a magic arrow or go on a magical expedition.
Apartheid tried to erase millions of Indigenous people, flattening centuries of language, culture, and identity into a single word, ‘coloured’. The wounds run deep. Sylvia goes in search of what was denied and stolen… Language, dignity, story and even the bones of her Ancestors.
XAU – OUR STORIES IN OUR BODIES is a film about what happens when trauma becomes resilience.
