My Prison Diary explores the possibility of Achiro living in her own little prison as a result of different things that is why she finds solace in the man who has lived half his life in an actual prison.This documentary will involve interviews with Ben and his family and friends and their feelings about that […]
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is a force of nature, and this film captures her powerful, unapologetic acts of resistance against an authoritarian regime. In The Woman Who Poked the Leopard, the Ugandan academic, poet, and feminist uses performance, protest, and poetry to challenge state repression and gender-based oppression. This intimate portrait follows Nyanzi as she navigates
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Five people navigate the dangerous landscape of war-torn Sudan, their stories intertwine as they pursue dreams, face political turmoil, and overcome obstacles. They struggle for freedom and survival in a chaotic country.
Climate change and unresolved historical injustices raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in a wildlife conservation haven. For centuries, Kenya’s Laikipia region has been a grazing route for indigenous pastoralist communities. It is also home to white ranchers and conservationists who settled there during the British colonial era
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This is an observational film following the story of Evelyn a 35 year old female truck driver fired from her job when she applied for maternity leave. We follow her as she searches for justice in a male dominated world and tries to find another job as a truck driver with a new regional oil transportation company driving across Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.
Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country’s revolutionary fervor and landed on the military government’s most wanted list. She went underground and her family never saw
John Kitime, an energetic musician in his 60s, puts together a band to revive the dying sound of Tanzanian Zilipendwa, music from the early independence era. Weaving memories of the past and dreams for the future, John and his bandmates revisit the golden era of gleaming horns and packed dance halls as they struggle to
Join singer Mim Suleiman, on her journey to create an all women band. Travelling across East Africa, she encounters women who tell their stories, leading us to a different understanding of the way the world turns. From encounters on the street, to secret rendezvous behind closed doors, Mim meets activists, performers, grandmothers and children who
Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, The Letter is an intimate family portrait that ascends into a dramatic climax of Shakespearean proportions. Karisa’s city-life is interrupted when his Grandma back home is called a witch and receives a death threat. Returning to his rural village to investigate, he finds a frenzied mixture
A teenage mother struggles with bringing up her infant son while at the same time pursuing her dreams of completing her high school education and joining university and creating a better life for herself and her son. A junior minister, seeing a gap in the avenues through which the youth in his congregation can
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