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Sunday, Feb 23, 2025
1:00 PM (94 mins)
BAMPFA
The Battle for Laikipia
In Conversation
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Maya Craig is a cinematographer and coproducer of The Battle for Laikipia.
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Miswa Basil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. His research examines the intersection of climate change, development, and land struggles in Kenya.
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Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
A tense, beautiful, and heartbreaking film.
Vulture
Shot in equatorial Kenya over a period of five years, The Battle for Laikipia is a bifurcated documentary epic, with filmmakers Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi embedded with both semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers. Ravaged by drought, the once fertile plains are no more, and the armed ranchers—boasting four generations of history in the region—do not like the pastoralists who have grazed the land for millennia encroaching on their privately owned safari land. The conflict is only exacerbated by contentious elections, as the fight over dwindling resources inevitably spirals toward violence.
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Daphne Matziaraki
- Peter Murimi
- Maya Craig
Language
- Swahili
- English
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 94 mins
Source
- One Story Up
- We Are Not the Machine
Event Accessibility
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