PROGRAMME 6: SUNDAY 19th MAY, 10.45am – 12.15pm USW ATRIUM – CINEMA
FEATURE FILM
Rafiki – Kenya, 2018, Dir. Wanuri Kahiu, 1 hour, 23 minutes.
“Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love between them blossoms, they are torn between happiness and safety.
Kena lives on a Nairobi housing estate with her mother. Helping her father, convenience store owner John, campaign for a local election, she befriends Ziki, the daughter of his political rival. As Kena and Ziki’s relationship deepens, their challenges grow greater – forcing them to choose between openness and secrecy, happiness and safety.
Rafiki was the first Kenyan film selected to screen at Cannes, where it premiered in Un Certain Regard, it was however, banned in Kenya itself for positively portraying and ‘promoting’ homosexuality, which is illegal in the country.
MAIN FILM TEAM
Director – Wanuri Kahiu
Writers – Wanuri Kahiu & Jenna Cato Bass
Editor – Isabelle Dedieu
Producer – Steven Markovitz
MAIN CAST
Kena – Samantha Mugatsia
Ziki – Sheila Munyiva
Blacksta – Neville Misati
Mercy – Nina Wacera
