1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.
Directed by David Schickele
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Cast
Jack Nance
Felix
Florence Stanley
Steno Mask
Crew
David Myers
Director of Photography
Stephen Lighthill
Additional Director of Photography
Popular Reviews
10 reviews
Jude
8.0★ · 11/16/25
Goddamn, that ending…completely recontextualizes everything and leaves you feeling cold
Goddamn, that ending…completely recontextualizes everything and leaves you feeling cold
Jude
8.0★ · 11/16/25
Goddamn, that ending…completely recontextualizes everything and leaves you feeling cold
Goddamn, that ending…completely recontextualizes everything and leaves you feeling cold
diego brando
3.7★ · 02/18/24
Saw this with my friends, they was not fucking with it. 😹😹
Quotes from the night of viewing:“The ending saved it”“This was some coon shit”
Saw this with my friends, they was not fucking with it. 😹😹
Quotes from the night of viewing:“The ending saved it”“This was some coon shit”
Tyler Burns
9.7★ · 09/21/23
This film absolutely blew me away. I didn’t really know what to expect, but was extremely impressed by the way it weaved the fictional story with the real documentary. The line blur between what is actually fictional and what is the lived truth of these actors. Phenomenal.
This film absolutely blew me away. I didn’t really know what to expect, but was extremely impressed by the way it weaved the fictional story with the real documentary. The line blur between what is actually fictional and what is the lived truth of these actors. Phenomenal.
