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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2019
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Rights:
TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET
One year after Robert Mugabe's fall, the great hopes for change have already given way to disillusionment. The dictator's former right-hand man took power in elections whose legitimacy is still contested. Since then, Zimbabwe has plunged into a deep economic crisis.
Unemployment, corruption, inflation, shortages: the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. In early January, the government doubled the fuel prices. The streets rose in anger immediately. A general strike was launched and clashes broke out all over the country. The government responded by cutting off Internet access, firing live rounds into the crowd and arresting hundreds of protesters... In this very repressive contest, resistance efforts are being coordinated. A new connected generation is determined to make life difficult for the government. Among them, a handful of young Zimbabweans have turned humor into a weapon to denounce the regime's violence, corruption and abuses of power. They embody an entire generation's hunger for change.