Shimoni (The Pit)

ANGELA WANJIKU WAMAI

06.10 – 19:30 (Basque)
06.10 – 20:00

PREMIERE IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY
WITH DIRECTOR ANGELA WANJIKU WAMAI

Kenya, 2022
Fiction, 97’
Kikuyu, English, Swahili, VOSE and VOSEU

Director: Angela Wanjiku Wamai  

Screenplay: Angela Wanjiku Wamai  

Cinematography: Andrew Mungai (C) 

Sound: Kamicha Kamau 

Editing: Angela Wanjiku Wamai 

Music: Kato Change 

Cast: Justin Mirichii, Muthoni Gathecha, Sam Psenjen, Vivian 

Producers: Monssons Creative Studio 

Synopsis  

After 7 years in prison, Geoffrey, 35, has to restart his life in Shimoni.

He hides out in the local Catholic Church.

One Sunday after Mass, Geoffrey sees a man with a white tuft of hair and, petrified, he pees his pants.

Seized with rage, kills a calf.

The monster has found him.