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SHIMONI

By Angela WANJIKU WAMAI

RED SEA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2022

In this gripping and carefully developed drama from editor–turned–writer-director Angela Wanjiku Wamai, a teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022

Discovery

Red Sea IFF 2022

Official Competition

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- KENYA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Angela WANJIKU WAMAI
- Synopsis
- After seven years in prison, 35-year-old Geoffrey (Justin Mirichii) is released into the care of a Catholic priests’ compound in Shimoni, a small and sleepy village in rural Kenya. As we shall discover, Geoffrey knows this place - all too well - as “the pit”. A revered English teacher before his time inside, he now does his farmyard chores, attends church services as required and maintains a distance from other residents. Not that he ever goes anywhere else; some unnamed fear prevents him from stepping outside the gate. Then a man with a distinctive white patch of hair appears, terrifying him so much that he wets himself. Weru (Daniel Njoroge) has haunted his dreams for decades. Now he can’t face him. Film editor Angela Wanjiku’s gripping directorial debut explores the ways in which memory and emotion seize control of the body, which in turn may speak when words fail.

SHIMONI

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