Feizel Mamdoo’s long awaited feature documentary, Of Journey, Home and Treasure, airs on SABC 1 on December 16 at 21h00. The documentary filmed some eight years ago chronicles the journey Mamdoo and fellow filmmaker, the late Dumisani Dlamini embarked on to the “Festival of the Dhow Countries” in Zanzibar. Here they explored the this cultural kaleidoscope and celebration of African, Indian and Arab culture to discover a deeper understanding of  he relations between African and Indian in South Africa.

Dlamini is of African and Indian Tamil progeny whose personal accommodation of this is unsettled by existing social and cultural divides. Mamdoo, of Muslim Indian descent, is painfully conscious too of the divides between African and Indian South Africans as he strives for recognition and definition of his African identity.

Producer/director Mamdoo says the film has been a profound real life journey, discovery and awakening over almost a decade.

Hailed as a visual spiritual experience, the 72 minute film is a co-production with the Madagascar based Belgian-Congolese producer, Patrick Vergeynst, and is grant supported by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and additionally co-equity financed by Ketso Gordhan and the SABC.

It features the music of fellow Lenasia bred musicians Deepak Ram and The Mavr!x.