From a Whisper (2008)

Directed by

Wanuri Kahiu

Genre

drama film

Country

Kenya

Runtime

1h 19m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows two people connected to a 1998 bombing in Kenya. One is a woman grieving her friend who died in the attack. The other is a man questioning his role in the tragedy. It shows how they cope with loss and try to move forward.

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What happens

From a Whisper is a Kenyan drama film written and directed by Africa Movie Academy Award winner Wanuri Kahiu. The film received 12 nominations and won 5 awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009, including Best Picture, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and AMAA Achievement in Editing. The film also won the Best Feature Narrative award at the 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and was honored with the 2010 BAFTA/LA Festival Choice Prize. Although the film commemorates the 10th anniversary of the 7 August terrorist bombing in Kenya in 1998, it is not about the terrorist bombing. The movie portrays a realistic story of the aftermath of the bombing by capturing the lives of the victims and their families who had to pick up the pieces of their lives shredded by the blast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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