One of the most anticipated premieres at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is the first-ever film from Kenya to play in Cannes, titled Rafiki (which translates just to Friend in Swahili). Rafiki is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a concise 82 minutes, “Rafiki” uses a traditional narrative to play up the textures of its setting. Based on the short story ...

The director of the award-winning short film "Pumzi" is poised to make history at 71st edition of the festival. On the film’s website, it’s billed as a love story between its female leads. Per the ...

Even in the middle of the day, in middle of the week, the theater was completely packed. Hundreds had come to watch Rafiki, a movie about two young Kenyan women who are full of life, joy and wonder.

Kenya’s High Court has temporarily lifted the ban of Wanuri Kahiu’s celebrated film Rafiki for a period of seven days, beginning Sunday, September 23rd. The film explores LGBTQ issues in a country ...

A Kenyan judge has temporarily lifted the ban on Wanuri Kahiu’s “Rafiki,” paving the way for the LGBT love story – which premiered in Cannes – to be submitted for the foreign-language Oscar race. In ...

EXCLUSIVE: Wanuri Kahiu, the award-winning writer-director of Rafiki, a film that was banned in Kenya after the filmmaker refused to alter the film’s portrayal of a lesbian relationship and played at ...

Cate Blanchett found Rafiki “incredibly powerful and moving,” while Benicio Del Toro went out of his way to chat with star Samantha Mugatsia. Dr. Ezekiel Mutua of the Kenya Film Classification Board, ...

Shamefully banned in its home country of Kenya, Wanuri Kahiu's tender tale of first lesbian love is modest, flawed and valuable. At a time when Greg Berlanti’s “Love, Simon” is belatedly bringing the ...

Rafiki opens with a burst of unfiltered teenage energy. A girl’s skateboard makes its way through the cracked streets and past the colorful kiosks of the Kenyan city in which she lives, as an anthemic ...

Banned in its home country, this delicate love story breaks no new ground, but feels progressive nonetheless. In “Rafiki,” a pair of young women in a small town fall in love, then face the ...