Summary
Fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother’s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. He has a summer to make amends before his grandmother returns from a vacation in Suriname.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+24)
Critics 91Audiences 67GoodWatch 75
Tomatometer91%
IMDb6.7
Running time
1 h 15 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −21 min on the typical 96
typical 9675Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
2022
August 31, 2022
4 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Dutch
Original language
Made in
- Netherlands
Directing · 1
- Shamira Raphaëla Director, Writer
Production · 2
- Willem Baptist Producer
- Nienke Korthof Producer
Editing · 2
- David Verdurme Editor
- Lykle Tuinstra Editor
Sound · 2
- Michael Varekamp Music
- Regard Ibrahim Sound Designer
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