Nuusiku

Nekomba, a 21-year-old performance artist, attempts to recreate a childhood dance she once performed with her aunt, one believed to summon physical ancestors. She hopes this act will slowly reconnect her now westernised Owambo culture to its spiritual roots. Instead, she is transported to a precolonial village, where she encounters both the beauty and shock of a way of life vastly different from her own. There, she falls in love with Nuusiku, a young woman who embodies a sense of queer freedom within her culture. But this world holds contradictions: Nuusiku has been chosen to be sacrificed as a companion to a dying king. While Nuusiku accepts her fate, Nekomba struggles to save her, forcing her to confront the violence within a past she once romanticised.