7 Films & TV Shows Set In Kenya During The 21st Century
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Softie
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sBoniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children, these qualities create tremendous turmoil between him and his wife Njeri. When he wants to run for political office, he is forced to choose: country or family?
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Poacher
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sA desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals a stash of blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.
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Disconnect
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sDisconnect — A romantic comedy that brings out the intricacies and absurdities of the Nairobi dating scene.
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line — A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
🇰🇪 Kenya Nagasaki Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sKoichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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Inception
New South Wales California 🇫🇷 France 🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sYour mind is the scene of the crime. — Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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The First Grader
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2000sIt's never too late to dream. — The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
