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.
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.
Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those around her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values.
A university student looks for a way to make quick and easy money and finds out that its not as easy as he imagined.
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."
Arif journeys between Zanzibar and Oslo, exploring his roots and personal identity. Guided by the spiral of a seashell — a symbol of past, present, and future—he navigates memory, belonging, and culture in a poetic search for self across time and space.
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.
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.
Two brothers get into a misunderstanding over who is the rightful master of Kung Fu.
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.
A poor but ambitious fisherman enslaves a mermaid-like water spirit and exploits her and her abilities for wealth and power.
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.
‘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.
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.
After he is reassigned to a rural high school, Tabu, a high-achieving English teacher struggles to sustain a decent lifestyle and a struggling profession amidst the alluring temptations of alcohol.
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.
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.
A young woman who is handicapped after an accident becomes attached to an AIDS orphan.
A successful married big city pharmacist returns to the village for her sisters wedding only to discover that her first love still pines for her with dire consequences.
