Wanjiru Kinyanjui
Director
The Battle of the Sacred Tree (1995)
Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this smart comedy shot in Kenya.
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Country: France
Production Countries:
Germany,
France,
Kenya
Languages:
German,
English,
Kikuyu
Recommendations
88 min
Jan. 1, 1995
Released
NR