Bitter Melons PREVIEW

Purchase: This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of, Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in presentday Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow. His songs evoke the, Gwi landscape and its diverse wildlife; they depict the routine of their daily lives: gathering food, collecting water, hunting for animals, and sharing as a