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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor makes his feature film directorial debut with an inspirational story of triumph against adversity, based on the uplifting memoir by William Kamkwamba. Trywell Kamkwamba (Ejiofor) is a farmer in Malawi, who is struggling to provide for his wife Agnes (Aissa Maiga) and intelligent 13-year-old son William (Maxwell Simba). Their village has been ravished by famine and landowners cruelly exploit these desperate times by offering families pitiful amounts of money for their homes to escape the poverty and hunger. Young William reads one of his books, Using Energy, and realises that there may be a way to save his home and village. He designs and constructs a wind turbine, which is connected to a dynamo. The power of the wind should be sufficient to generate electricity to power the village and irrigate the parched land.
