From a Whisper
Screening with Superhero + directors Q&A
Filmmaker: Wanuri Kahiu
Kenya / 2008 / 80 min / English
Awards: Winner: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Soundtrack, Best Screenplay, African Movie Academy Awards 2009
ICA Cinema 1, Wed March 10, 6.30pm & ICA Cinema 2, Thu March 11, 8.30pm
Deeply affecting, multi-award-winning drama exploring emotional recovery from the impact of Nairobi’s terrorist bombings of 1998.
A family is torn apart by the terrorist bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998, in which over 250 people died and the aftershocks of which still tremble today. Years after the horrific event, a teenage girl is still searching for her mother, through radical art and less than legal adventures. Kahiu’s emotionally powerful drama swept the board at last year’s African Movie Academy Awards, we say rightly so!
Wanuri Kahiu
Wanuri Kahiu is one of Kenya’s most talented young filmmakers. Having trained in the US and worked on The Italian Job and Catch A Fire, Wanuri is now back in Kenya and working on several new projects. Look out for her highly-anticipated sci-fi short Pumzi at festivals later this year.
Superhero
Dir. Hanneke Schutte, South Africa 2009, 15 min
Can an amnesiac in a superhero outfit be real? One little boy ponders this question upon meeting the eponymous character.
Screening in partnership with Africa in Motion funded by The Commonwealth Foundation
