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)
In Mumbai, Ratna is a maid in the household of Ashwin, heir to a family fortune. Despite his perfect-seeming life, he is increasingly lost, while she, who...
Feature film , Drama
INDIA , France | 83 minutes | 2018
The sea and its endless horizons. For some, it represents freedom from the stress of urban life. For others, it’s the involuntary passage to a new...
GERMANY , Austria | 83 minutes | 2018
Indonesia, the country I shed my blood to defend. Left to fend for themselves on the fringes of a society and family that have stigmatized them,...
Feature film , Documentary
BELGIUM , Indonesia | 83 minutes | 2018
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