The Envelope

The Envelope 2018

6.00

Bahasha is the story of Kitasa, an elected public official who betrays his family, friends and community when he takes an easy bribe. He learns the hard way and must now find the road to redemption.

2018

Kapitano

Kapitano 2016

10.00

New action movie from Wakaliwood.

2016

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

Shimoni

Shimoni 2025

6.25

A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.

2025

Married to Work

Married to Work 2023

4.17

To save their real estate agency, an ambitious businesswoman and her entitled boss must convince an investor they're married -- despite hating each other.

2023

The Prophetess

The Prophetess 1970

1

In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Furaha and Venantie, forge an unbreakable bond after experiencing unimaginable trauma. Together, they ignite a movement of empowerment that transcends their pain and inspires an entire community to reclaim their future.

1970

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

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

TEN MONTHS

TEN MONTHS 2022

1

MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to take care of for ten months in a year.

2022

Zawadi

Zawadi 2015

1

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.

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

Shoeshine

Shoeshine 2013

1

Set in a busy street of Dar es Salaam, a shoeshine boy offers us a conscious and subconscious perspective of the space and people of his city ranging from the local politician to University students as well as the neighbor tea maker. This short-film is both a social commentary and an artistic depiction of the life, aspirations and perspectives of a working child.

2013

Mozizi

Mozizi 2021

1

Mozizi, a female anthropomorphic character (half Anopheles mosquito, half human) is on a quest to find a new ‘home’ after her breeding grounds have been destroyed by fumigation. She takes us through her day as she trounces through the urban scape of Dar es Salaam with a housing agent.

2021

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

40 Sticks

40 Sticks 2020

6.00

A group of prisoners trapped in a crashed prison bus strive to stay alive when they realize there is a mysterious killer lurking in the shadows.

2020

The Ancestors

The Ancestors 2018

1

This film follows John Kitime, a Tanzanian musician now in his 60s, as he sets out on a mission to put together an all-star band from the old days to revive the classic sound of Zilipendwa music. Along the way, he meets the people who played key roles in the music scene of Tanzania during the struggle for independence and the nation's formative years under the first president, Julius K. Nyerere. As Kitime plays with the band, spends time with musicians and digitizes reel-to-reel tapes from the 1960s and '70s, he reveals a fascinating and little-known story about the power of music to bring together a people and a nation.

2018

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

T-Junction

T-Junction 2017

7.50

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.

2017

Kung Fu Brothers

Kung Fu Brothers 2020

1

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

2020