From A Whisper TRAILER

By Samson Babu
From a Whisper was a movie done by a Kenyan director and script-writer, Wanuri Kahiu. It commemorated the 10th anniversary of August 7th terrorist bombing in Kenya in 1998, in which over 200 people died and more than 5,000 were injured.

          From a Whisper, shot along the thinking that fiction reveals truths that reality obscures, isn’t about the bombing per se, but the aftermath of the bombing on the lives of the indirect victims of the blast who were forced to learn how to live past the tragedy that shattered their lives.
.The film received 12 nominations and won 5 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009, including Best Picture, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and AMAA Achievement in Editing. 
            The film also won the Best Feature Narrative award at the 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and was honored with the 2010 BAFTA/LA Festival Choice Prize.Although the film commemorates the 10th anniversary of the August 7th terrorist bombing in Kenya in 1998, it is not about the terrorist bombing. 
           The movie portrays a realistic story of the bombing aftermath by capturing the lives of the victims and their families who had to pick up the pieces of their lives shredded by the blast. 
          
The film stars: Tamani (Corine Onyango), an angry and rebellious Muslim teenage girl whose mother went missing during the bomb blast In the Movie, also there is Abu who is an intelligence officer who keeps to himself. When he meets Tamani, a young, rebellious artist in search of her mother, he decides to help. 
            The discovery of her death churns up memories of Fareed, Abu’s best friend who also lost his life in the attack. The discovery forces them to learn how to forgive, to believe in themselves and confront what they fear the most – the truth.