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Rising Rwandan actor Emmanuel Mugisha recently emerged winner at the Image Et Vie Film festival in Senegal. The teenage actor scooped an award for the ‘Best Male Actor’, a role he perfected in Icyasha, a film by Clementine Dusabejambo.
About the Film
ICYASHA follows a twelve years old boy and football lover tries desperately to join a neighborhood boys‘ team. His effeminate character disqualifies him. He gets denigrated and bullied several times. He finds himself confronted to a world where he has to prove and claim his masculinity. It is a story that simultaneously discusses the pain and beauty of childhood.
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