A fish so big it changed a town—then broke the man who caught it.
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
Direction
Kibwe Tavares blends live action with jaw-dropping animation seamlessly.
Cinematography
Zanzibar locations glow—then curdle—as paradise commodifies.
Acting
Daniel Kaluuya carries entire emotional arcs in minutes.
Director
Kibwe Tavares
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daniel Kaluuya filmed this the same year he broke through in Black Mirror's 'Fifteen Million Merits.'
Kibwe Tavares co-founded Factory Fifteen, a collective known for architectural dystopias—this is their tender, personal exception.
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