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

Monsoons Over the Moon

Monsoons Over the Moon 2015

1

Set in a post-apocalyptic Nairobi, when the government has shut down the internet, books and the written word have become exponentially valuable and the world has been turned on its head.

2015

Dar Noir

Dar Noir 2015

1.00

A narcotics cop who moonlights as a heroin addict, finds redemption and a future in a sassy working girl who sees the gentle, loving man within, if only he can escape the darkness that keeps pulling him down.

2015

Act of Love

Act of Love 2023

1

In the search of a livelihood, Juliana, a young mother, holds on to sanity by a thread, as her world is turned upside down.

2023

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

Our Madness

Our Madness 2018

6.20

Ernania is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic, and her husband, Pak, who is a soldier of the war. In the meantime, a quirky musical instrument plays: her own bed. Ernania’s musical virtuosity, attracts the attention of the hospital nurses. One day, her song is played in a radio program and Rosa, an evangelical priest of “Rádio Moçambique”, goes to the hospital to listen to Ernania’s song. Ernania takes the priest’s visit as an opportunity to run away from the hospital.

2018

Not in Tanzania

Not in Tanzania 2020

1

In a secluded house in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, ten individuals meet to share stories of suppression, violence and harassment, but also of dreams, hopes and their illegal love for one another.

2020

Mission to Rescue

Mission to Rescue 2021

1

Along the Kenya-Somali border, the Kenya Special Operations Forces who are training for their next mission receive word that the Assistant County Commissioner and two others have been abducted by the Al-Shabaab militia. A daring rescue mission begins, in which the military men must show all their skills.

2021

Homecoming

Homecoming 2016

1

Abel returns home after graduating and working in the US for 10 years and joins the Tanzanian corporate world where his ethics and morals are tested, and forced to make choices about the person he wants to become.

2016

Call Me Uncle

Call Me Uncle 2023

1

Tanzanian queer singer Tofa Jaxx in conversation with HIV/Trans activist Aunty Ali, exploring issues of sex work, gender and being out.

2023

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

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

The Intruder

The Intruder 2022

1

Five siblings are brought back under the same roof after their father's passing, with a deadly intruder roaming their halls and no way out they are forced to face the truth, the intruder, and worse, each other.

2022

Watatu

Watatu 2015

1

In this drama that morphs into documentary, the lives of 3 men in Mombasa intertwine as one of them falls victim to radicalization.

2015

Unyagoni: Bahati's Sex Education Journey

Unyagoni: Bahati's Sex Education Journey 2025

1

In the Swahili cultural sex education 'Unyago', Bahati Ngazi learns from the wise women of the Swahili community the cultural importance of sex education through rituals.

2025

Wazi? FM

Wazi? FM 2015

1

MoMo is a Somali urban refugee living in Nairobi where he runs the community radio station Wazi? FM with his Kenyan friend Kevo. Their partnership began when an NGO brought them together as part of a program to have a Somali and a Kenyan work on media project promoting peace. Everything is going well at Wazi? FM until one day the team stumble upon a dark secret in their community and MoMo vanishes. Pulling together the pieces of the story an Inspector from the Kenyan Special Forces is trying to understand what really happened before MoMo's disappearance.

2015

Our Land, Our Freedom

Our Land, Our Freedom 2023

1

Wanjugu Kimathi is the daughter of Dedan Kimathi, legendary leader of the Kenyan Land and Freedom Army, or Mau Mau. This resistance group fought the British colonial regime from 1952 to 1960 to stop it from confiscating land, a conflict known as the Mau Mau Rebellion. In 1957, the British authorities hanged Dedan for possession of firearms, and then dumped his body at an unknown location.

2023

Kung Fu Brothers

Kung Fu Brothers 2020

1

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

2020

Sharing Is Unity

Sharing Is Unity 1983

1

The film explores the rural life and feelings of the Iteso people of Kenya. The African sense of community is experienced through their daily activities ranging from farming to storytelling. The film portrays the Iteso’s spirit of sharing and reciprocal giving, values which contribute to the unity and survival of communities in Africa. The film is narrated by members of the Iteso community.

1983

Bangarang

Bangarang 2021

1

A Kenyan film inspired by true events that led to Baby Pendo's tragic loss. It follows a boda rider who is on the run for fear of being falsely accused of the death of a 6-month old baby.

2021