Veve is the latest vivid and socially conscious film from the Nairobi/Berlin collaborative producers of the award-winning dramas Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary.
Set in Kenya, it documents the double-crossing lives of those trading in khat or ‘veve’, a mildly narcotic crop grown in the Meru region of the country. As Amos, a corrupt politician, attempts to edge a competitor out of the khat business for his own greed-fuelled gains, his wife finds solace in the arms of the local bad-boy—not knowing that her new lover is intent on destroying her husband.
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The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul is supported in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the State's general fund and its arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.