Winnie Trailer (2017)

Trailer for the documentary Winnie.

For decades, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life was under heavy public scrutiny. As her husband Nelson Mandela served out his sentence in prison, Winnie took centre stage before the world as the face of the African National Congress, and met with the challenges of a nation under apartheid in addition to those of a woman in a critical political role. Unflinching in her pursuit of progress and rights for the people of South Africa, history still paints a complex portrait of her, one where many questions linger and heated divisions endure to this day. Through archival footage and intimate interviews from her supporters and detractors, including interviews with Winnie herself, this film attempts to unravel the controversies and get a clearer picture of this singular woman who met the extraordinary challenges of a nation in violent transition head on.