Inspired by Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 drama "The Bicycle Thief," director Donald Mugisha’s "The Boda Boda Thieves" gives a vivid look into the life of a Ugandan teen on a mission to save his family’s livelihood. Produced through the Pan-African filmmaking collective Yes! That’s Us Films, the feature recently screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.
On paper, the stories for this film and De Sica’s are similar – the fate of a poor family hinges on the father’s bicycle business, and when his bike is stolen it throws their world into chaos. Here, the patriarch Goodman runs a boda boda (motorbike taxi) business while his wife breaks rocks for a…
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