Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon 1970

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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.

1970

Two Gents and a Pan

Two Gents and a Pan 2025

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A hearty film in Kamba about two gentlemen and a pan of food.

2025

Zanzibar Soccer Dreams

Zanzibar Soccer Dreams 2016

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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.

2016

Kumekucha

Kumekucha 1987

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An area has become alive.

1987

Just wait I’ll give you a house

Just wait I’ll give you a house 1982

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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.

1982

One Life Saved

One Life Saved 1982

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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.

1982

Simba Wa Nyika

Simba Wa Nyika 1982

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A man listens to music on a cassette. It seems to have been composed by an amateur. Then, on stage, he is now the conductor of an orchestra and this time, it’s he who is playing this music.

1982

Amuka

Amuka 2021

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The Democratic Republic of Congo could feed almost 1 in 2 people on Earth. Yet one in six Congolese people suffer from hunger. Yet one in two Congolese suffers from moderate acute malnutrition. Yet agriculture accounts for 70% of the population there. Faced with this paradox, the peasants regroup in agricultural cooperatives. A handful of them share their daily lives with us, that of all those they represent. Even if they don't know each other, live thousands of hundreds of kilometers from each other, participate in different agricultural sectors, their voices resonate in this powerful, sensitive and sincere documentary.

2021

Good Fish

Good Fish 2001

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Day in a life of Tanzanian fishermen

2001

Pepo Kali

Pepo Kali 1970

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PEPO KALI follows Wairimu, a woman in her 50s, as she learns to ride a motorcycle after her daughter's fatal accident. As she grapples with grief, mastering her daughter's passion becomes both a solace and a struggle.

1970

The Africologist

The Africologist 2022

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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.

2022

Corona v19

Corona v19 2022

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Corona v19 is Swahili movie created by simion kehuto to educate people with virus 2019

2022

Morning After

Morning After 1970

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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.

1970

The Chairman and the Lions

The Chairman and the Lions 2012

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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.

2012

Parapanda

Parapanda 1982

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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…

1982

Railway Chakula

Railway Chakula 1982

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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.

1982

Rainbow Tours

Rainbow Tours 1982

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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.

1982