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You Can't Hide from the Truth (2016)

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A blind musician and his son try to survive in Zimbabwe's difficult political and economic climate. This musical documentary follows their struggle to make a living through their music.

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You Can’t Hide From The Truth, is a 2016 Zimbabwean direct-to-video musical documentary film directed and produced by A.a.V. Amasi for Goatfame. The film is a musical documentary about a blind musician father and son who are struggling to make ends meet in Zimbabwe's harsh political and economic environment. The film made its premier in February 2016 in the United Kingdom. The film received mixed reviews from critics and screened at many film festivals. In 2017 at the European Film Festival of Lille, the film won the Best Documentary Award and later won the Best International Documentary Film in Best International Film category at the Festival Brasil Cinema Internacional. In the same year, the film won the Best Mid-Length Film Award at the Tirana International Film Festival, AL. Apart from that the film also nominated for the One World Media Award for Student Award at the One World Media Awards and Best Documentary Award at the International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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