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- In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
- Between the Rains is a feature collaboration with the Turkana-Ngaremara community that seeks to understand the experiences of a childhood caught within a traditional culture that is a casualty of climate change.
- CREC employees arrive in Kolwezi, DRC to build a road. Logistics head Lao Yang must procure local supplies as government deliveries fail. With translator Eddy, misunderstandings ensue as Lao Yang negotiates with Congolese entrepreneurs.
- Holy, by renowned directors Guy Reid and Simon Rieber, is the life of a young man who choose to live a holy life by lying to achieve his goals but his efforts failed miserably after meeting a girl who made him forget what he intended.
- A thirteen-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father's tragic murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya's largest wildlife conservancies.
- A young, aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in the big city. In pursuit of this and to the chagrin of his brother and parents, he makes his way to Nairobi:the city of opportunity.
- Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.
- A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.
- 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.
- The story of Alias, a young Albino on the run, hunted by local witch doctors who use Albinos body parts for their potions.
- A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.
- A blind man and a deaf woman fall in love but when they discover a way to surpass their limited communication, new problems arise. The couple's understanding of each other is challenged and their passion becomes unbearable.
- Ten-year-old Aisha's latest school assignment asks her to say what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that all her classmates have written that they are going to take over their parents' businesses or follow them into their professions. Aisha has bigger dreams: she wants to go to Europe and become an actress. How to do it? Her plan is to find a job on a fishing boat so that she can sail all the way to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha doesn't agree - and when she meets Hassan, a drunken fisherman who promises to teach her how to fish, she seizes her opportunity.
- In 2061, scientist made a breakthrough discovery that will save the continent. It is EONII. Forces in the shadows begin to surface. Lies, betrayal, politics, and war, all to decide one thing- who will control the power of the EONII?
- AYAANLE is a 21 year old, young man living in Nairobi who aspires to become an actor and reach Hollywood. Despite his conservative upbringing and coming from an impoverished background, he remains optimistic about making it in the film industry and hopes to emulate his hero Denzel Washington. His life is turned upside down after a series of unlikely events that lead him to becoming the most wanted man in Kenya and in connection with terror activities across East Africa. The nightmare starts with a corrupt police squad arresting him without due cause. His mother has to use the entire family savings to bail him out of jail leaving the family facing hard times. In his desperation to recoup the funds, Ayaanle is coerced by a friend to join a hoax that he is orchestrating in order to make some quick money. A news crew from the global news network GNN are in Nairobi to film a story about the activities of terror networks in East Africa. The real terror group are unwilling to provide interviews, a Friend and Ayaanle conspire to hoodwink the news crew and pretend to be members of the terror group for the purposes of the interview in order to exact some money from the news team. Unfortunately for Ayaanle, the crooked policemen who arrested him earlier also end up viewing the news item and recognize him straight away. The cops end up frantically searching for Ayaanle and his team all over Eastleigh, terrorizing the neighborhood with the reward money from the Americans in mind; they want to get to him first before anyone else does. After his arrest, he's taken to a special site where he meets the real extremists where he becomes radicalized and ready to settle scores.
- Safari is a family adventure movie which follows a timid boy who, captive in his rural home, escapes in an attempt to experience Kenya for the first time.
- A grandmother living in a small Kenyan village completes her final year of primary school at the old age of 94.
- Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
- A Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.
- Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In WEAPON OF WAR military perpetrators unveil what lies behind this brutal behavior and the strategies of rape as a war crime. An ex-rebel explains how he raped. Like for many ex-soldiers, starting a normal life again is a struggle filled with trauma. In an attempt to reconcile with his past, he decides to meets one of his victims in an attempt to obtain forgiveness. Captain Basima is working as a priest in Congo's army and confronts perpetrators of rape. He urges them to change. Just like he did.
- An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to be in communication with another reality. In their confrontation with their individual and collective pasts, Dr Asira and Samehe are bound by fears and half remembered images of unbearable pain. Only through the spirit of Maangamizi, can the women resume their lives with an understanding of the ancestors and their eternal presence in a world of cruelty, hatred and death. It is a story that seeks to reclaim the connection between Africa and her Diaspora, and one that dares to represent the histories of two continents as it peels away layers upon layers of pain to bring healing of the soul.
- To save their real estate agency, an ambitious businesswoman and her entitled boss must convince an investor that they're married - despite hating each other.
- 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.
- Daisy is a happy high school graduate, whose dreams, expectations, passion and confidence are significantly affected by family and romantic drama
- A woman single-handedly shoulders her family's burdens, without reward or thanks, to farm her husband's land and keep the family fed and cared for. She finds herself training her daughter to walk the same path she does. No school, all work. Pests threaten her harvest and are exterminated using a loan from the local women's Co-op. But when Manyusi squanders her prized harvest and schemes to marry off their daughter, Fatuma must enlist the help of her fellow ladies at the co-op to make things right.
- Rehema, the daughter of a rich businessman Adam Mbena is kidnapped by an infamous gang of criminals. Adam is extorted and has only 24 hours to pay a ransom or lose his only beloved daughter.
- Watatu, made by Kenya's leading arts for social change organization - SAFE Kenya - examines the rise of radicalization amongst young Muslims in Mombasa. Part drama, part documentary, this forum film provides audiences around Mombasa the chance to change the outcome of the story.
- Following the everyday life of 21-year-old Samira from Zanzibar for 7 years, NDOTO YA SAMIRA depicts the quiet victories of a determined young woman.
- In Tanzania, a single mother is offered the chance to improve her circumstances, but the risks she faces have deepening consequences as she struggles to keep her HIV-positive status secret.
- Follows the lives of multiple characters trying to find themselves in a world of political intrigue, revenge, love and longings for success complemented by the background of their thriving yet unregulated business.
- A young African man trying to escape from poverty ends up working for a corrupt and dangerous organization.
- After a woman accidentally receives the wrong blood transfusion, she finds herself falling in love with her friend's husband.
- Stinger is a family drama about a brilliant 19 years old Bahati who dropped out of school due to financial constraints. Aching for vengeance against her polygamous father who consistently abuses her mother, she embarks on a journey to learn boxing only to find out that she can as well escape poverty through the sport. Struggling to ensure that Bahati drops the male dominated sport, her mother, Malaika, arranges a young man from a religious family to marry her off. In order to succeed in life Bahati must win the battle both at home and in the ring.
- Shot on location in Zanzibar, the story revolves around Zamora, a well traveled Zanzibar painter/womanizer on a voyage of self discovery. Filled with romantic connotations about the spice island, he meets a beautiful Zanzibar / Omani woman who mesmerizes and influences him to buy a dhow( sail boat) to have a comfortable life in Paradise. Zamora's passion for the unknown, a reckless adventurous lifestyle and a sordid past lands him in nightmarish situations. Through three separate emotionally charged relationships, (Zulfa, Saada and Zareena) he almost becomes a victim of the confrontation between the good and the evil. Zulfa stands for pure, innocent love but is tied down by traditional restrictions. Saada stands for the mystical, magical and unconditioned side to the African psyche. Zareena stands for power and obsession and its corrupting impact. The film explores the adoptive nature of the African spirit with all its consequent pros and cons.
- Uhuru is not a story; it is a right. A chance for hundred of thousands of voiceless people in Tanzania to have a platform. Here, a group of people with a variety of impairments reveal the conditions that they experience daily.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- Framed for the murder of her husband, Bobo is wrongly sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release, Bobo is forced into a life of crime. She struggles to escape the clutches of the Gaza slum while her crime spree escalates to a deadly end for her friends and enemies alike.
- With her unfaithful boyfriend in tow, a young physician embarks on a bloody crime spree after a fateful encounter with a violent criminal.
- Filmed verite style over five years, I Am Samuel is an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man torn between balancing duty to his family with his dreams for his future.
- A young woman with no memory of her life or death, is helped with assimilation to the afterlife by a ghost.
- Who are you without a home?
- SOMETHING NECESSARY is a film about a pivotal period in the life of Anne, a woman struggling to rebuild her life after the civil unrest that swept Kenya following the 2007 elections, claiming the life of her husband, the health of her son and leaving her isolated farm in ruins. Joseph, a troubled young gang member who participated in the countrywide violence is drawn to Anne and her farm seemingly in search of redemption. Both he and Anne need something that only the other can give to allow them to shed the painful memories of their past and move on, but will either of them find it?
- The Democratic Republic of Congo has been called a geological scandal due to its mineral rich soil. Unfortunately, those minerals, necessary to sustain today's technology, are funding the deadliest war since WWII.
- A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's LGBT community.