Kizingo

Kizingo 2017

5.00

11 years old JOHNI and his ten year old sister SONI stumble on a sack of cash hidden by the thugs ROBAA and KAUZI. When the two thugs realise it is the kids, they try to track down and retrieve the money but their bungling ways create more comedy than horror. Soni, the braver of the two kids convinces Johni to not let their mother MAMA JOHNI into the secret. However in a twist of events, their farm hand MWAKAZI, unkowingly handles the loot, but loses it to MALI the hawker. Will the bumbling thugs manage to retrieve the money or will the kids outwit them? A Swahili comedy set in Kenya, Kizingo shows the twists and turns that fate throws on even the best laid plans.

2017

Victoria

Victoria 2025

5.00

‘Something special about Nairobi is the people. I love the people of Nairobi. One thing I dislike about Nairobi is that there are barely spaces for children to play’, says Victoria behind the wheel of her van, driving from one birthday party to the next. Five years earlier, she set up a helium balloon business in the Kenyan capital to surround herself with joy and find safety after escaping an abusive relationship. In the colourful bouncy castles she erects and in the children’s laughter that fill them up, she finds healing and new strength.

2025

Kung Fu Brothers

Kung Fu Brothers 2020

1

Two brothers get into a misunderstanding over who is the rightful master of Kung Fu.

2020

TEN MONTHS

TEN MONTHS 2022

1

MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to take care of for ten months in a year.

2022

One Woman One Bra

One Woman One Bra 2025

6.50

In a rural village, an orphaned girl named Star races against time to prove her family lineage and claim her land deed, facing obstacles from hostile neighbors and shady organizations while unexpectedly finding romance along the way.

2025

Baba

Baba 2022

1

A six-year-old boy living in the outskirts of Nairobi uses an unusual ability to escape a harsh reality, in this wildly imaginative and emotionally affecting tale of childhood by Kenyan director Mbithi Masya.

2022

Tithes & Offerings

Tithes & Offerings 2019

1

A humorous satire about a Kenyan charlatan who claims to be a “miracle healer”.

2019

The Rock Speaks

The Rock Speaks 2025

1

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a rare earth mineral that is essential in the production of technologies. In this hybrid documentary, South African artists Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson, together with Congolese historian Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol, trace the trans-continental journey of this precious metal: from its violent extraction in the mines of DRC to its sale on global stock markets. The Rock Speaks weaves a complex contemplation on an urgent ecological crisis that is fuelled by obscene labour practices that our technological systems demand.

2025

Peponi: The Paradise of Crooks

Peponi: The Paradise of Crooks 2021

1

A story about a young African man living with his beautiful childhood love interest in a bedroom shack, struggling to find work. He then gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to earn money and have a lifestyle beyond his wildest dreams working for a corrupt organization. This dream lifestyle turns to a nightmare when authorities close in on him to turn in his father-figure boss, and his entire organization while losing all his wealth or risk some serious jail time.

2021

Blind Love

Blind Love 2021

10.00

A blind man and a deaf woman fall in love with each other, but their disabilities cause major communication problems.

2021

Kenya: Until Hope is Found

Kenya: Until Hope is Found 1970

1

Mureithi started this project after the 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya left more than 1,200 people dead and 500,000 displaced in his home country. His goal: To understand how to confront unresolved trauma and heal — before the March 2013 elections. He has released an early version of the 60-minute documentary in advance of the upcoming elections in an effort to stave off another round of violence. Film critic Roger Ebert called the work "an urgent documentary by a filmmaker I admire."

1970

Mateka

Mateka 1970

1

After apocalypse, a chief aims to seek for a cure for a virus which killed plenty of people so as to take over by capturing and use them for testing, one of the captives' daughter takes a quest to look for and rescue her father from hands of the brutal gang led by a warrior who is promised wealth and marriage with chief's niece.

1970

Invisible Flame

Invisible Flame 2025

1

When fish begin to vanish, community members are quick to blame Dani, the elderly woman rumoured to be a witch. Daisy, a fisherman’s daughter, must decide whether to stand by her friend or heed the warnings of those around her.

2025

Uradi

Uradi 2021

5.00

A university student looks for a way to make quick and easy money and finds out that its not as easy as he imagined.

2021

Maisha, Maisha Tu

Maisha, Maisha Tu 2019

8.00

Shot in Tanzania, this feature film shows four different life stories - stories of challenges, opportunities and second chances.

2019

Dar 2 Lagos 4 re-union

Dar 2 Lagos 4 re-union 2006

5.00

A young man living in Dar es Salaam meets an old man who takes him in as his son and eventually sends him off to Nigeria to look for his three children. The only link to finding them is a set of negative films and an address. The story is about his adventures in a foreign land and how he finally meets them and reunites them with their father.

2006

These Hands

These Hands 1993

8.00

A day in the life of Mozambican women refugees working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam.

1993

Nairobby

Nairobby 2021

1

After successfully pulling off a heist, six university students live a life on the run as jealously and greed put their friendships to the test.

2021