

Yellow Fever
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.
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- English
- racism
- skin
- woman director
- colorism
- short film
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- Theatrical1 Sept 2012
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- TheatricalAfrikanisches Filmfestival Hamburg 201914 Nov 2019
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Yellow Fever was released on 1 September 2012.
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