Enchukunoto (The Return)
Laissa Malih, the first female Maasai filmmaker, explores her ancestral lands' transformation by climate change, offering a unique narrative fusion of tradition and modernity.
- Director: Laissa Malih (Maasai)
- Principal Cast: Clinto Lekominga, Dukuya Lekominga Nderi Lolinge, Patrick Ole Saikong, Reuben Legei, Rupes Caro
- Premiere Status: North American
- Country: Kenya
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 16 min.
- Producer: Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector
- Screenplay: Laissa Malih, Kavita Pillay
- Cinematographers: Franklin Mudulia Manono
- Editors: Sauli Pillay
- Music: Lekurende Nkiriki
- Website: Official Film Website
- Language: Maasai, Samburu, English
This film is playing as a part of The Battle for Laikipia
In Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau, a seemingly endless and increasingly deadly land rights battle rages on between the region’s indigenous Samburu pastoralists and the European-descended ranchers who do not take kindly to “trespassers.”
