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Rafiki
MSPIFF38 Audience Choice Award Winner for Image of Africa - Fiction! Wanuri Kahiu spins a breathtaking love story in a film based on the acclaimed short story Jambula Tree by Monica Arac de Nyeko. The film follows two young women, Keni and Ziki, as they meet and fall in love while living in Nairobi, their romance backlit by an atmospheric sense of wonder. While their love grows, outside tensions begin to threaten their safety, and soon it appears as though they will be forced to choose between a future together or apart. A powerful feat of cinema, Rafiki was banned in Kenya shortly after its premier due to its portrayal of LGBTQ themes, which are outlawed. And yet, it was Kenya's first feature film invited to the Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the Official Un Certain Regard program to universal praise.
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