Story
9-year old Jo’s most fervent wish is to be a superheroine. She lives in a village in Kenya with her mother Kathryn and her sister Mwix and because she’s seriously ill spends most of her time at home. Mwix encourages her to believe in her strengths: maybe it isn’t quite so impossible to become a superheroine? Mwix motivates the whole village to make Jo’s dream come true.
Director
LIKARION WAINAINA (*1987) is a Kenyan film-maker and lives in Nairobi. Since 2011, he has been directing films, documentaries and TV series. His short film Bait was shown at Cannes in 2016.Trailer
Info
Supa Modo
Fiction Feature
Swahili, Kikuyu, English
Michel | FF2018
Germany, Kenya
2018
74 min
German overvoice
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Rushlake Media GmbH
One Fine Day Films; Ginger Ink Films
Lena Werle, Rushlake Media GmbH: lena@rushlake-media.com