Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Samantha Mugatsia, Sheila Munyiva, Neville Misati, Nice Githinji, Charlie Karumi, Muthoni Gathecha, Vitalis Waweru |
| Director |
Wanuri Kahiu |
| Screenplay | Wanuri Kahiu, Jenna Cato Bass, from the short story by Monica Arac de Nyeko |
| Cinematography | Christopher Wessels |
| Editing | Isabelle Dedieu, Ronelle Loots |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Big World Cinema, MPM Film, Schortcut Films, Ape&Bjørn, Rinkel Film, Razor Film Produktion GmbH, Tango Entertainment, |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Fairly frequent, moderate (sic) impact language. [Examples cut. - Ed.] |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None (sic) |
| Violence | Fairly frequent, moderate impact scenes of physical, psychological and emotional violence e.g. Kena is constantly taunted and harassed, engages in a physical fight and the girls are beaten up in a mob justice attack |
| Prejudice | Frequent, thematic, moderate impact Prejudice against homosexuality and same sex relations e.g. one man twice refers to Kena saying 'faggot' saying 'You looking faggot!' and 'more like a faggot you homo!' and suffer mob justice attack they are beaten up and bruised, then mocked by the police and humiliated because of their relationship. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | The movie revolves around a young woman Kena from the town of The Slopes in Kenya and her controversial same sex relationship with Ziki, the daughter of a prominent politician in the community. The movie explores the challenges the girls face when they fall in love and become romantically involved in a generally homophobic community. They face rejection, ridicule, suffer unwarranted physical attacks and mob justice because of their sexual orientation. THEMES are Complex, mature, sensitive, adult nature themes that deal with same sex relationships, religion, politics, father/daughter relations, forgiveness, fatherly love, strained family relations, mother/daughter relations, friendships, lesbianism, a homophobic community, church service and sermons, friendship, humiliation, love, secrets, gender based issues, jealousy, encouragement, right vs wrong, shame, hate crime, romance, a broken family, infidelity, career dreams and aspirations, falling in love, mob justice, being ostracised, forbidden love and intolerance. The themes may be confusing, disturbing, distressing, and upsetting to children under the age of 16 who may not be fully developed cognitively to comprehend the concept of sexuality, same sex love relationships, homophobia, intolerance and hate crime (mob justice) as portrayed in the content. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| 24.com Alex Isaacs | 20 |  |
| Metacritic.com 17 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 64 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer  Rafiki tells a familiar story with bracing originality, marking director/co-writer Wanuri Kahiu as a talent to watch. | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Rottentomatoes users 29 users | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter | 16 | |
| IMDB 1089 Netizens | 13 |  |
| The Movie DB Community | 15 | |
Average .. 79% | 16 | |