The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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Credits

director

Chiwetel Ejiofor

costume design

Bia Salgado

editor

Valerio Bonelli

producer

Andrea Calderwood

Gail Egan

production company

BBC Film

BFI

Participant

Potboiler Productions

production design

Tulé Peak

screenplay

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Duration

01:53:00

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-491480

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

History

TMDB-Movie

491480

Wikidata

Q60738660

Collected

38 times

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Malawi, United Kingdom and United States of America, 2019