About This Film
Festival Year: 2012
Run Time: 32 Minutes
Film Type: Short
Animated: No
Countr(ies): Australia
Language: Other Language(s)
English Subtitles: No
Captions: None
Film Overview
UMOJA (Kiswahili for “unity”) tells the life-changing story of a group of impoverished tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who turn age-old patriarchy on its head by setting up a women-only village. Their success and increasing fame incurs their men's' jealousy and wrath, setting off an unusual, occasionally hilarious, gender war.