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Yesterday(Movie, 2004)

1h 36min | Genre: Drama
YesterdayRating: 3.8/5 (with 1212 votes)
Yesterday is a 2004 South African drama film written and directed by Darrell Roodt. The film tells a story of a young mother, Yesterday (Leleti Khumalo), who discovers she has AIDS. Her husband, a migrant mine laborer, rejected her despite being the one that infected her. Her ambition becomes to live long enough to see her daughter, Beauty, go to school. This film is the first commercial feature-length production in Zulu. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 77th Academy Awards. It also won Best Sound and Best Editing at the inaugural edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Yesterday

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About Yesterday

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

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Additional Information

Production country: South Africa
Plays in: South Africa
Original language: Zulu (ZU)
Spoken languages: Zulu (ZU)
Translated into 9 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/03/2004
Director: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Anant Singh
Screenwriter: Darrell Roodt
Film Editor: Avril Beukes

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Other movies with this title: Yesterday (HU, 1959), Yesterday (PL, 1985), Yesterday (BG, 1988), Yesterday (KR, 2002), Yesterday (2009), Yesterday (FR/DE/HU/MA/NL/SE, 2018), Yesterday (GB, 2019), Yesterday (2023)

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