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Animated Shorts

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Directed by Athi-Patra Ruga • 2014 • South Africa

A stunning cosmic kaleidoscope of fluorescent, pixelated nature imagery is set to a dryly satirical lesson on the totalitarian, matriarchal political structure of the fictional republic of Azania.

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