Engaging with the world
KENYA , South Africa , Germany , Netherlands | 83 minutes | 2018
Eyes that light up, knowing smiles, lingering gazes: Kena and Ziki get butterflies whenever they’re together. Their fathers are facing off in an election they couldn’t care less about. They’re feeling the first glimmers of love and that’s all that matters. For her second feature, Wanuri Kahiu trains her lens on a relationship forbidden by Kenyan society, intolerant as it is of difference. Banned from being screened in the filmmaker’s homeland, Rafiki is a sensitive, restrained look at two taboo-smashing young women who dare to defy morality. A high-risk bet that’s paid off in spades.Presented by LSTW Magazine and The Woman Power
Un Certain Regard - Cannes
No biography
2018 Rafiki 2010 Africa First: Volume One (segment "Pumzi") 2009 Pumzi (Short) 2009 From a Whisper 2006 Ras Star (Short)
Summer 1990. The Chilean people are finally throwing off the yoke of the repressive Pinochet dictatorship. In search of freedom, a handful of families have...
Feature film , Drama
CHILE , Brazil , Argentina , Netherlands | 83 minutes | 2018
Two years after Yamato (California), the Japanese director is back with a Singaporean jaunt that’s a cross between a guided tour and a surreal music...
JAPAN , Singapore | 83 minutes | 2018
More than 10 years after Caramel, Nadine Labaki adopts a gritty, documentary-style approach to chronicling the loveless existence of slum child Zain, age...
LEBANON , France | 83 minutes | 2018
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