A young girl living along the scenic coast of Kenya breaks with tradition by learning to fish—all while dreaming of becoming an actress—in this tender coming-of-age drama from Swiss Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser. Even at the age of ten, young Aisha knows it takes money to make it to Europe to become a star, so she takes up fishing as a means to an end, much to her mother’s chagrin and the uncertainty of a local fisherman/tutor. Inspired by the filmmaker’s relationship with his own mother, After the Long Rains “is an intimately realized portrait of village life” (Variety).