Video Catalog > Death and Dying

In the African storytelling tradition, the video tells of Suna, a young African business executive. Career, family, and girlfriends are all going well for him; he is given an important promotion at the manufacturing company where he works, and his wife Serra is pregnant with their first child. Suna scoffs at the warnings from his friends about contracting AIDS and continues to have many girlfriends.

Everything changes when his newborn son is found to be infected with HIV. Suna realizes that he has infected his family with the incurable and inevitably fatal disease. He knows he will not live long, but it still may be several years before he becomes too sick to work. It is problematic when he tells his boss that he has AIDS, for it has been the policy of his company to immediately fire employees who are HIV positive. And indeed, the first impulse of his co-workers and neighbors is to avoid and persecute Suna and his family. But with the help of his best friend and his family, Suna finds the strength to go on. His employer, co-workers, and neighbors learn the facts about AIDS and become allies instead of enemies in his struggle for life. When Suna's son dies, the funeral becomes an expression of hope and unity.

Color, 48 minutes, VHS

Price : $195.00

Awards: Magna Cum Laude, Parma;International Communications Industries Prize; Prize Winner, Prix Futura Film Festival, Berlin;Runner-Up, NCFR;Finalist, IFTVF of New York