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.
Karisa’s city-life is interrupted when his Grandma back home is called a witch and receives a death threat. Returning to his rural village to investigate, he finds a frenzied mixture of consumerism and Christianity is turning hundreds of families against their elders, branding them as witches as a means to steal their ancestral land.
Mbeu Yosintha was made to help farmers and rural communities cope with the effects of climate change and in particular the ever changing rain patterns in South East Africa. The film is a drama using local actors and was devised with Malawian writer Jonathan Mbuna following extensive research with various agricultural NGOs in Malawi. Following successful drama like Mawa Langa this film has already been seen in Malawi by over 10,000 people in rural areas using a pedal-power cinema kit.
‘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.
An action movie about hunting animals.
In the search of a livelihood, Juliana, a young mother, holds on to sanity by a thread, as her world is turned upside down.
A university student looks for a way to make quick and easy money and finds out that its not as easy as he imagined.
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.
In the Kenyan slums of Kibera, a ten-year-old boy hustles to provide for his family, taking him away from his crush on her birthday.
After the passing of her estranged father, Fatima makes an unlikely friend at a hospital, Maria. Bound by pain, Fatima keeps coming back to hear Maria's tale of the T-junction where she found love and loss in a ragtag community.
A poor but ambitious fisherman enslaves a mermaid-like water spirit and exploits her and her abilities for wealth and power.
Tanzanian queer singer Tofa Jaxx in conversation with HIV/Trans activist Aunty Ali, exploring issues of sex work, gender and being out.
An African fable of sisterhood, envy and ancient evil. The story of Ala and Coa from the Leopards tribe. When her sister outshines her once again, Coa meets a mysterious entity, the morning star and the bestower of gifts, that can grant her wish...
A blind man and a deaf woman fall in love with each other, but their disabilities cause major communication problems.
A day in the life of Mozambican women refugees working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam.
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.
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.
New action movie from Wakaliwood.
Apostles of Cinema follows Frank, DJ Black, and Rehema — three devoted film workers in Tanzania — as they reintroduce a classic piece of the country’s film history to their audiences of working class cinephiles. We join them, alongside Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001), on a journey through the labyrinth of informal libraries, studios, and cinemas that exist to keep film and film culture alive. A testament to the profound cultural value of film when made truly accessible.
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.