Kenya Movies

17-year-old 'antisocial butterfly' Hawi has one goal – to join her classmates on a school trip to Mount Kenya. But her father wants to take a...

On the morning of Kenya's 1982 coup attempt, a trusted radio broadcaster is forced at gunpoint to announce the fall of his own government only to...

Film by Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann

Harambee: The Weight of Division is a 2025 short documentary that revisits Kenya's 2007-2008 post-election crisis, a violent chapter triggered by...

After years of labouring in a colonial farmhouse, a housekeeper in Nairobi tells her co-worker that she wishes to abandon her body and simply become...

Joe, a people-pleaser, tells a small lie to his boss in order to please his girlfriend. This lie eventually blows up to magnitudes of biblical...

Weekend in Hell is a tightly edited archival documentary that plunges viewers into the horror of the 2013 Westgate Mall siege in Nairobi. Told...

A girl's serene evening turns harrowing with menacing messages, sending her racing through dimly lit corridors from a mysterious figure. Thinking...

The future and dreams of two kids lies in the hand of their school principal who has a dark and dangerous side and will not let them have it on a...

Temple Road is a journey into the heart of womanhood, taking its name from the road that leads to the temple in the director’s hometown of...

Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer revolutionary technology that...

In a country where queerness often lives in the shadows, Muthoni’s lens spotlights Nairobi’s radiant LGBTQIA+ youth creating their own...

Alone in a forest, a young man on a peaceful bike ride stumbles upon an abandoned bicycle, a mysterious notebook, and a photo of someone who looks...

In this humorous and biting film, an eclectic group of people living in Nairobi gathers over Zoom for a court-ordered anger management class. As they...

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...

A protestor is kidnapped by the police and asked to use is influence to sway the protests in the governments way.

As Earth reaches its environmental breaking point, Mia, a talented black astronaut, must make a difficult decision: to stay with her ailing father,...