The Imam

The Imam is killed, memories of him are told, a child imagines. In 1969, Imam Abdullah Haron was incarcerated and killed in detention under the terrorism act of 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa. His was one of the early deaths in detention during Apartheid's dark days. During the 60s Imam Haron became more active and began traveling abroad to raise funds for impoverished families back home. It was during this period that the notorious security police began to keep and eye on him. Mixing animation, documentary and archive, this short film looks at the last few years of the Imam's life and death. Told by his grandson, through the eyes of a child's imagination of the memories that are told to him by some of the people who knew and were inspired by the Imam.