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28 January 2023

Angela Wanjiku Wamai: Shimoni - Official Selection - FESPACO 2023

Angela Wanjiku Wamai
Shimoni

Kenya - 2022 - 97min - Fiction


"We have the responsibility to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions. We have the responsibility to make people look and listen, no matter how much they don’t want to. It is our responsibility to give people the images to look at and enable them to listen to voices they haven’t heard before." (Women and Hollywood)

Synopsis
Geoffrey, a teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.

Angela Wanjiku Wamai
A film editor based in Nairobi, Kenya, Angela Wanjiku Wamai was recently awarded best film editor by the Women in Film Awards – Kenya. In 2018 she wrote “I Had to Bury Cũcũ,”which premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Her debut as director was with the short film, Dad, Are You Ok?, which premiered at the International Female Film Festival Malmö. Shimoni (“The Pit”) is her first feature film. 

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