Directing

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Born in Kenya. Studied in BC Canada and Berlin Germany. Film school DFFB Berlin. Several films short and long, docs but mostly fiction. Lives in Kajiado, Kenya. Teches filmmaking at the Multimedia University of Kenya. Working on two films.

Known for

Behind the camera

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6.0

The lives of three extraordinary African women from different social levels and origins determined to bring about radical transformations in their day to day realities: Kenyan attorney and reputed lawyer Njoki Ndung'u, Puthi Ragophala the committed school principal of a remote South African village and Zimbabwean housewife-entrepreneur, Amai Rosie.

Africa is a Woman's Name

2009

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NR

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Der Vogel mit dem gebrochenen Flügel

1991

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NR

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Der Vogel mit dem gebrochenen Flügel

1991

Black in the Western World poster
NR

Wanjiru Kinyanjui was born in Kenya in 1958. Before becoming a filmmaker, she was a writer, poet, and radio journalist. She obtained her master’s degree in English Literature and German in Berlin before enrolling in the German Film and Television School (dffb) there. This film consists of several interviews with people of colour and talks about their view on racism in Germany.

Black in the Western World

1992

The Battle of the Sacred Tree poster
4.0

Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this smart comedy shot in Kenya.

The Battle of the Sacred Tree

1995

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Documentary about African Music performed in Berlin.

Berlin African Time

1991

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Documentary about African Music performed in Berlin.

Berlin African Time

1991

A Lover & Killer Of Colour poster
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A young painter appreciates the versatility of colours. She tries to come to terms with her loneliness in Germany with poems and paintings.

A Lover & Killer Of Colour

1988