Kenya Movies

A father struggling to balance career and family gets unexpected help and must make a hard choice as he learns the value of presence over presents.

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental...

16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'00"

A heartbreak comedy about female friendship, accidental kidnapping, and a TikToking police officer set across one bright, terrible Nairobi afternoon.

Five boys in their freshman year in high school try to take a stand against the institutional and seemingly inevitable bullying and oppression, in a...

A poor but ambitious fisherman enslaves a mermaid-like water spirit and exploits her and her abilities for wealth and power.

When the US embassy opens the green card lottery visa, Assad writes hundreds of stories about imaginary families running away from the war and...

In a city where silence kills louder than bullets, a young man torn between faith and crime must confront his guilt when the woman who raised him...

Mwas, a young aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming an accomplished actor one day, and in pursuit of this, he makes his way to...

On board a commercial airplane, Ruwe, an African intellectual, sits next to a white man named Walter. In their conversation, which is utterly brutal,...

Otis Janam, a lazy fisherman, wins a boat racing championship and the hand in marriage of the wealthiest man's daughter. Can a good woman save a fool...

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,...

When fifteen year old Mercy faces the unimaginable, her courage and resilience come to the fore. What could have been the end of her story is only...

When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a...

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

Two strangers in Nairobi instantly connect over humor and heartbreak fall in love, only to discover that understanding someone is easy at the...

A young woman forced to clean up a murder discovers a deadly secret that puts her in a fight for survival.

Subira, is a young, free-spirited girl from the rural areas of Kenya. She seems to have her whole life ahead of her, that is, until the death of her...

A conservative Muslim man’s life is turned upside down when his wife demands an orgasm.

After a whirlwind online romance, a lonely British woman (Charlotte) comes to Kenya to track down her fiancé, only to find everything is a...