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Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya

Mbwana

Malachi Kirby

Malachi Kirby

Juma

Louis Mahoney

Louis Mahoney

Old Mbwana

Crew

Philip Dobree

Philip Dobree

Executive Producer

Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne

Writer

Fiz Oliver

Fiz Oliver

Producer

Chris Collins

Chris Collins

Executive Producer

Ollie Madden

Ollie Madden

Executive Producer

Ivana MacKinnon

Ivana MacKinnon

Producer

Kibwe Tavares

Kibwe Tavares

Director

Sarah Wheale

Sarah Wheale

Producer

Mark Sayfritz

Mark Sayfritz

Original Music Composer

Eva Yates

Eva Yates

Executive Producer

Shaheen Baig

Shaheen Baig

Casting

Paul Nicholls

Paul Nicholls

Visual Effects Supervisor

Paul Nicholls

Paul Nicholls

Production Design

Chloë Thomson

Chloë Thomson

Director of Photography

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Jonah

20135.7 / 1017 min
Fantasy

Overview

When two young men photograph a gigantic fish leaping from the sea, their small town becomes a tourist attraction in this story about the old and the new.

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.