Unasemaje? 2024
A virgin in a coastal East African town becomes mysteriously pregnant weeks before her wedding, forcing her family to confront faith, tradition, and her right to choose.
A virgin in a coastal East African town becomes mysteriously pregnant weeks before her wedding, forcing her family to confront faith, tradition, and her right to choose.
Chameleon Corridors is a short film told through the all-seeing eyes of a chameleon. It tells the story of how one community in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania is striving to regenerate one of the world’s most biodiverse forests.
17-year-old 'antisocial butterfly' Hawi has one goal – to join her classmates on a school trip to Mount Kenya. But her father wants to take a holiday to his rural childhood home, which is close to the mountain. While plotting her escape, her Aunt Sulwe shows up, still nursing a grudge over her brother’s scandalous memoir. Soon, a quiet family visit swells into a simmering battleground.
The Africologist is a futuristic documentary on African History, Science, and Technology. Director Val Lopes and the virtual character, the Africologist, embark on a journey through space and time, their mission: unveil and relate the chronicles of Africa.
An area has become alive.
Urban life can be difficult. Here we first follow a couple who encounter one problem after another as they hunt for a flat. The estate agent is a crook and makes their job even harder. When it becomes impossible to find somewhere to rent, there’s only one thing left to do: live in a shanty town. One of the inhabitants shows us what living in that environment actually means.
The "Flying Doctors' Service" is a mobile medical team that intervenes where health services are absent. When a villager becomes ill after eating spoiled meat, the "Flying Doctors' Service" is called. They then have to fly him back from Kajido to Nairobi.
The "Rainbow express", one of Naïrobi’s many collective taxis, follows its daily itinerary. Discovery of one of these "Matatus", from its manufacture in Kariobangi by a local craft company, to the transport of its passengers, through its driver and billeter.
Day in a life of Tanzanian fishermen
The dawn of an era for women's football in Zanzibar. This film is a follow-up to the 2007 Zanzibar Soccer Queens which focused on Women Fighters Football Club, a team of strong-willed Muslim women determined to play soccer to better their lives.
War movie
Set in Tharaka-Nithi county, Kenya, the Film is based on a young African girl's journey through life, as a Student in a Community that looks down upon girls attaining an Education. At the height of her frustration and conflict, she is about to give up on her dreams when she meets a retired Doctor playing Chess. He trains her in the game, which builds her mental fortitude to rise up against her social challenges, to attain a quality Education and break through the glass ceiling, by using Chess as a tool to self-actualisation.
Corona v19 is Swahili movie created by simion kehuto to educate people with virus 2019
A young man endures the longest morning of his life upon discovering that his staunch Christian mother washed the clothes of his secret one-night stand.
As recently as forty years ago, most sections of the Maasai were semi-nomadic and relatively independent of the nation-state. However, political, social and economic changes in East Africa have forced many herders to adopt a sedentary lifestyle. The Chairman and the Lions introduces Frank Kaipai Ikoyo, a charismatic Ilparakuyo Maasai who, at thirty-three, is the leader of a Tanzanian village called Lesoit. Ikoyo was elected to his post at the age of twenty-six in part because he had completed primary school. That someone so young would be accorded such authority would have been without precedent not long ago. Yet this ethnography of Ikoyo's duties as village chairman shows how literacy and insight into the workings of the nation-state are essential for Maasai to combat the many lions, both real and figurative, that beset them: land grabbers, "bush" lawyers, unemployment, out-migration and poverty.
The “Voice of Kenya” is the radio that symbolizes the country’s independence. Which means that being a producer there is no small issue. To get a children’s chorus to rehearse in a church, to put together a programme with champagne, or to prepare a recording of a musical edition for Christmas, these are just some of his numerous tasks…
From inside the kiosk, you can hear the trains leaving for Nairobi. In this little restaurant, the customers with the lowest income have gathered to eat a cheap meal, the only one they can afford. All around the station people rush about, cook and eat, in time to the rattle of the trains.
The film paints the portrait of a poor young girl who has come from the countryside to earn her living as a maid. Her mistress mistreats her and her life isn’t easy. While her mistress is away, she searches the house. But one day, she is caught by surprise in her mistress’s bedroom…