critiQs

Login Sign-up
The Wound

The Wound

#
Drama
📜 Overview: Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
🌏 Languages Available: Afrikaans , English , Xhosa
📆 Date Released: 2017-04-19
⌚ Running Time: 88 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.4

Beloved Cast

Nakhane original image
Xolani
Nakhane
Bongile Mantsai original image
Vija
Bongile Mantsai
Niza Jay Ncoyini original image
Kwanda
Niza Jay Ncoyini
Thobani Mseleni original image
Babalo
Thobani Mseleni
Gamelihle Bovana original image
Initiate
Gamelihle Bovana
Halalisani Bradley Cebekhulu original image
Initiate
Halalisani Bradley Cebekhulu
Inga Qwede original image
Initiate
Inga Qwede
Sibabalwe Ngqayana original image
Initiate
Sibabalwe Ngqayana
Siphosethu Ngcetane original image
Initiate
Siphosethu Ngcetane

Similar Movies

6.27
Movie Name : Cop
Release Date : 🕔 1988-02-05
Average Rating: 6.27
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in …

5.0
Movie Name : Young Soul Rebels
Release Date : 🕔 1991-08-09
Average Rating: 5.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

6.4
Movie Name : Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Release Date : 🕔 1976-02-04
Average Rating: 6.4
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of …

6.5
Movie Name : Another Country
Release Date : 🕔 1984-06-01
Average Rating: 6.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years …

5.9
Movie Name : Defying Gravity
Release Date : 🕔 1997-07-09
Average Rating: 5.9
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Popular frat guy Griff, the ultimate boy next boy, has a great big secret... Pete. Given an ultimatum by Pete, …

4.2
Movie Name : Never Met Picasso
Release Date : 🕔 1996-01-01
Average Rating: 4.2
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter …

5.9
Movie Name : About Us
Release Date : 🕔 2017-02-17
Average Rating: 5.9
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two young students, Matheus and Diego, experience their first love.

5.0
Movie Name : Eye of the Veil
Release Date : 🕔 2022-09-28
Average Rating: 5.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After the sudden death of her pregnant partner, a closeted attorney must embrace her sexuality and humanity, as she seeks …

4.0
Movie Name : Jerker
Release Date : 🕔 1991-01-01
Average Rating: 4.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : The movie, adapted from Robert Chesley's homoerotic play of the same title, revolves around two men who started out as …

4.0
Movie Name : The Ring Thing
Release Date : 🕔 2017-06-02
Average Rating: 4.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : When Sarah accidentally proposes to her girlfriend in Provincetown, the mixup turns their loving relationship into a minefield of marital …

4.4
Movie Name : Animals
Release Date : 🕔 2022-06-23
Average Rating: 4.4
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Brahim is a young man, and secretly gay. At his mother’s birthday party, tensions around his unaccepted sexuality become unbearable. …

5.5
Movie Name : Hard Pill
Release Date : 🕔 2005-07-15
Average Rating: 5.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for …

5.3
Movie Name : No Hard Feelings
Release Date : 🕔 2020-09-24
Average Rating: 5.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr …

6.3
Movie Name : It's My Party
Release Date : 🕔 1996-03-22
Average Rating: 6.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he …

6.7
Movie Name : The Living End
Release Date : 🕔 1992-08-14
Average Rating: 6.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime …

5.5
Movie Name : Camp
Release Date : 🕔 2003-09-05
Average Rating: 5.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports …

6.46
Movie Name : Gypsy 83
Release Date : 🕔 2001-10-18
Average Rating: 6.46
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of …

6.358
Movie Name : Young Hunter
Release Date : 🕔 2020-05-28
Average Rating: 6.358
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Ezequiel, a sixteen-year-old gay teenager in his sexual awakening, meets a boy of twenty-one. They quickly start a relationship and …

Comments (0)