Beat the Drum

Year: 2003

Runtime: 114 mins

Language: English

Director: David Hickson

Budget: $1.5M

Drama

After a mysterious illness leaves his KwaZulu‑Natal village orphaned, young Musa departs his grieving grandmother for Johannesburg, carrying his father’s last gift—a tribal drum—in search of work and his uncle. The harsh city tests him, but his resilient spirit persists, and he returns home with a hard‑won truth his elders have yet to grasp.

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