Dear Mandela is a 2012 South-African/American documentary on 3 friends that emulated the leadership qualities of Nelson Mandela in their environment. It was nominated for Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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In this documentary, the filmmaker Rehad Desai takes us on an intimate journey mapped out by the scars etched into his family's life from having a father who was intensely involved in politics. Barney Desai was a political hero during South Africa's struggle for freedom, yet as a father he was damagingly absent emotionally. Rehad spent most of his young life in exile and became politically active himself. On this intensely personal journey into his past, Rehad realizes he is following in his fathers footsteps as he reviews his relationship with his own estranged teenage son.