Shimoni

After seven years in prison, 35-year-old Geoffrey is released into the care of a Catholic priests’ compound in Shimoni, a small, sleepy village in rural Kenya—a place he knows all too well as “the pit.” A revered English teacher before his time inside, Geoffrey now does farmyard chores, attends required church services, and keeps his distance from other residents. Then a man with a distinctive patch of white hair appears: Weru has haunted Geoffrey's dreams for decades. Angela Wanjiku Wamai’s gripping directorial debut explores the ways in which memory and emotion seize control of the body, which can speak when words fail.