AFTER THE LONG RAINS
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Swahili
Subtitle
English
Country
Switzerland and Kenya
Director
Damien Hauser
Bio
Producer
Damien Hauser
Cast
Eletricer Kache Hamisi, Bibi Swaleh, Bosco Baraka Karisa, Najima Khanda, Ibrahim Joseph, Travis Jumba Harnley, Emmanuel Baraka Gunga
Scriptwriter
Damien Hauser
Ten-year-old Aisha’s latest school assignment asks her to say what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that all her classmates have written that they are going to take over their parents‘ businesses or follow them into their professions. Aisha has bigger dreams: she wants to go to Europe and become an actress. How to do it? Her plan is to find a job on a fishing boat so that she can sail all the way to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha doesn’t agree – and when she meets Hassan, a drunken fisherman who promises to teach her how to fish, she seizes her opportunity.
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