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Dilman Dila

    Dilman Dila je ugandský spisovatel a filmař, jehož díla se často zabývají hlubokými lidskými tématy a společenskými otázkami. Jeho psaní se vyznačuje silným vypravěčským stylem a pronikavými postavami. Dila je také zdatný filmař, který svými filmy rozšiřuje svůj umělecký dosah. Jeho tvorba přináší jedinečný pohled na africký kontinent.

    Where Rivers Go to Die
    A Fledgling Abiba
    • A Fledgling Abiba

      • 150 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      3,5(4)Ohodnotit

      An orphaned teenage girl navigates the challenges of survival and her emerging magical powers amidst a devastating sorcerous plague. As she discovers that she might possess the key to curing the plague, her deeper longing is for a place to call home and the comfort of family. The story intertwines her quest for belonging with the urgency of her unique abilities, highlighting themes of resilience and the search for identity.

      A Fledgling Abiba
    • A young teen, haunted by the ghost of his father, takes it upon himself to save his brother and his people from a warlord's marauding army. A frustrated detective is driven to the brink, confronting the vengeful spirit killing grooms on their wedding night. What happens when British colonials find Martians in Africa, a brash warrior battles his elders and ancient horrors in order to secure paradise for his people, or an exiled abiba is stolen away to find his true destiny? Emerging Africanfuturist writer/director, Dilman Dila, brings us Where Rivers Go to Die, a startling collection of eight wonderful tales full of imagination, wonder, sorrow, power, and hope that weave Uganda's wonderful myth and reality with its past, present, and possible future as only he can.

      Where Rivers Go to Die