The Battle for Laikipia

Director: Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi

Institute History

  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

Co-directors Daphne Matziaraki (4.1 Miles, The Me You Can’t See) and Pete Murimi (I Am Samuel) craft The Battle for Laikipia with empathy, compassion, and brutal truth. Weaving together themes of environmentalism, colonialism, and conservationism, the film delicately showcases the impact of these crucial topics on the Indigenous farming community of Kenya’s Laikipia region. Handled with care, Matziaraki and Murimi’s The Battle for Laikipia takes us through a journey that elicits frustration, awe, curiosity, and wonder.—BB

Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 25–28) and credentialed press and industry (January 24–28).



Screenings include open captions.

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