Kenya: New Poll Violence Film Pricks Kenya's Conscience

24 January 2013

"The characters in this story are fictional. The story is not." That is the disclaimer that comes right before Judy Kibinge, Mungai Kiroga and JC Niala take warranted liberties and bundle film lovers on an 85-minute multilingual emotional rollercoaster ride. After Nairobi Half Life, the One Fine Day Film Workshop project has given birth to another noteworthy film, Something Necessary.

Produced by Tom Tykwer, Ginger Wilson and Sarika Lakhani, the film introduces you to a woman who has no choice but to muster the will to live after a gang of men attacks her family, kills her husband, rapes her and sets her house on fire. All she has left are a comatose son (Benjamin Nyagaka), his medical bills, a destroyed farm and her husband's ghost. Ann (Susan Wanjiku) is a Kikuyu woman who was married to a Kalenjin man, Steve (Martin Njoroge), until that night when her tribe became an excuse for rape and pillage.

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