‘Winnie’ Tells the Other Side of the Mandela Story

The Sundance directing award winner brings Winnie Madikizela-Mandela out of her ex-husband’s shadow.

Behind every great man there’s a great woman. So it is in Winnie, a quietly powerful film about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. During Nelson Mandela’s 27-year imprisonment, she led the African National Congress in her husband’s absence and coordinated continu…