Free Screening of Internationally Acclaimed Film

An internationally acclaimed film that was released in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup will be screened in Kenya for the first time on the 21st of June at 7:00 p.m. Africa United will show at the Goethe Institute on Maendeleo House, Monrovia Street as part of the Film Aid Refugee Film Fesival

It is an uplifting film that tells the story of a mismatched group of kids who are trying to make their way to South Africa to witness the opening ceremony of the first Soccer World Cup to be hosted on African soil. A few mishappenings and they are taken on a cross-country journey across the continent. It is a coming-of-age story that fuses a road-trip movie with sports and comedy.

The film was nominated for a Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards and Best Feature at 2010 Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, neither of which it won. The film, however, won the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2011.

The film gained favourable reviews on Time Out, The Guardian and the online version of Empire Magazine. It has an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Debs Patterson’s directorial debut has been referred to by many reviewers as the African Slumdog Millionaire. The film also stars former child soldier, now musician, Emmanuel Jal.
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