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Lgbt | Black Lgbt
Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
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Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
Outstanding Film Limited Release | 2020
Images of Africa Fiction | 2019 | Wanuri
Best Feature Film Cultweek | 2019 | Wanuri
Grand Jury Award | 2019 | Wanuri
2019 | Wanuri
Outstanding Lead Performance | 2019
Section | 2018 | Wanuri
2018 | Wanuri
Actress in a Leading Role | 2018
Best Acting | 2018
2018 | Wanuri
Narrative Feature | 2018 | Wanuri
Favorite Narrative Feature | 2018 | Wanuri
Best Feature Film | 2018
Best Feature Film | 2018 | Wanuri
Narrative Feature Film | 2018
Outstanding Lead Performance | 2019
Outstanding Supporting Performance | 2019
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2020 | Wanuri
Best Screenplay | 2019
Best Production Design | 2019
Best Costume Design | 2019
Best Cinematography | 2019
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 2019
Best Director | 2019
Best Film | 2019
Outstanding World Cinema Motion Picture | 2019
Indie Movie | 2019
International Competition | 2019 | Wanuri
Best Feature Film | 2018 | Wanuri
International Competition | 2018 | Wanuri
2018 | Wanuri
2018 | Wanuri
2018 | Wanuri
2018 | Wanuri
Best Film | 2018 | Wanuri
Best Feature Film | 2018 | Wanuri
Box Office Collection 181,316 USD
Since homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, the lesbian love story was banned by the country's film classification board, but the director won a week's suspension of the ban in September of 2018 from the Kenyan high Court, so that locals could see it in theatres there for a brief period.
The title means "friend" in the Kiswahili language and indicates the need in an intolerant society to disguise a same sex romance as a platonic friendship.
For the director, it was important to show the modernity and dynamism of Nairobi, where cultural life is growing more and more for and by the younger generation.
It is inspired by Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko's 2007 Caine Prize-winning short story "Jambula Tree".
The film was importantly co-financed by the European Union through its EU-ACP Culture Plus Programme.
