Feminist Film Series RAFIKI

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives" - Kena learns early on what is expected of girls and women in her home country: to be well-behaved and to submit to the will of men. Her single mother is also blamed for her husband leaving her for a younger woman. But the self-confident Kena doesn't let anyone dictate how she should live. She also befriends the beautiful Ziki, even though their fathers are political rivals. The gossip in the neighborhood doesn't bother the girls at first. But when Kena and Ziki fall in love, they have to decide between the supposed security of hiding their love and the chance for their shared happiness.
RAFIKI means "friend" in Swahili, and is the first Kenyan film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In Kenya itself, where homosexuality is still punishable by law, the film was initially banned from screening, a ban that was only lifted after a lawsuit by the director.