Film Screening: Yesterday

Set against the harsh landscape of South Africa, HBO Films’ Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film that tells the tale of a South African mother, Yesterday, who is diagnosed with AIDS and must journey afar to understand her illness. Yesterday has set her sights on a single goal: to be with her daughter Beauty on her first day of class, along with the other proud mothers. The first international film ever made in the Zulu language, as well as South Africa’s first Oscar-nominated film, Yesterday is a story of compassion and hope, set in contemporary South Africa, ten years after the arrival of democracy.