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ENCHUKUNOTO (THE RETURN)

Laissa Malih, Kenya, 2024, 15 min.

ENCHUKUNOTO (THE RETURN) directed by Laissa Malih

As the first female Maasai filmmaker, Laissa Malih initially set out to document the land-based practices of her forefathers and ways in which climate change is reshaping Maasai communities. In returning to the IL-Laikipiak Maasai village that her parents left when she was a child, Malih experiences an epiphany: her own life is a reflection of the myriad challenges between Maasai youth and elders, women and men, ancestral ways of passing down essential knowledge and modern methods of education.