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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Participant

BBC Film

Potboiler Productions

Malawi

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Maxwell Simba

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Aïssa Maïga

Lily Banda

Joseph Marcell

Lemogang Tsipa

Philbert Falakeza

Noma Dumezweni

Khalani Makunje

Robert Agengo

Felix Lemburgo

Raymond Ofula

Rophium Banda

Kelvin Maxwell Ngoma

Edwin Chonde

Fiskan Makawa

Beatus Ble Msamange

Trevor Dominic

Truth Dominic

Rashid Tambala

Latifa Tambala

Fredrick Lukhere

Hestingzi Phiri

Samson Kambalu

Martin Githinji

Melvin Alusa

Amos Chimpokoser

Kelvin Chimpokoser

Eddie Mbugua

George Misinde

Hope Chisano

Aaron Mhone

Noel Mkubwi

James Mhone

Bruno Chitsulo

Hilde Phiri

Lomuthi Jere

Ian Chisekula

Owen Chikanken

Gospel Thawale

Edward Khomamphero

Rodgers Wagawa

Grace Msiska

Tulé Peak

Dick Pope

Antonio Pinto

Andrea Calderwood

Gail Egan

Compton Ross

William Kamkwamba

Bia Salgado

Francesca Van Der Feyst

Natascha Wharton

João Bueno

Joe Oppenheimer

Valerio Bonelli

Mario Zvan

Jeff Skoll

Tom Harberd

Phil Hunt

Bryan Mealer

Jonathan King

Jim Shamoon

Norman Merry

Hemal Shah

Peter Hampden

Alexa L. Fogel

Donald Sabourin

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This is a great looking film depicting the abject poverty, despite their best efforts, of a subsistence farming community in Malawi. The cinematography is glorious as we follow the Kamkwamba family's struggles to educate their children and feed themselves at the same time - in the face of some pretty brutal government corruption and a severe drought. Son "William" (Maxwell Simba) is thirteen, and he has more than an average degree of nouse to him - he concludes, after studying a few engineering books in his school's library - that by cannibalising an old bike and an old ghetto-blaster, he can create a turbine mechanism that could be used to generate electrical power to pump water and help them to improve their harvest, and their lives... Chiwitel Ejiofor is his rather sceptical father, struggling under the pressures of keeping his family alive and the two have quite a forceful battle of wills as the young man attempts to convince his father that sacrificing the family's only mode of transport is a risk worth taking! I found the establishing parts of the story a bit too slow; once I understood the extent of their predicament and what the young man was trying to do, I was itching for him to succeed - and the behaviour of the father I found irritating and incongruous, slightly, with a man so keen on educating his family. That said, once it starts to focus on the project, I was astonished by the ingenuity of "William" and his young student friends as they materially change the lives of their famines for ever. It's a good film this - a try triumph of optimism over experience that I largely enjoyed watching.

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Maxwell Simba

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Aïssa Maïga

Lily Banda

Joseph Marcell

Lemogang Tsipa

Philbert Falakeza

Noma Dumezweni

Khalani Makunje

Robert Agengo

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