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MINE - a short film by Lorella Jowi

Director of photography: Dennis Kamau
Producers: Dennis Andaye & Lorella Jowi
Editor: Dennis Kamau

This is a story about a broken family. The main protagonist is MINE, A GIRL (10), who lives with her single mother, her little brother KARIS (5). The MOTHER has a drinking habit and doesn’t care about the children. The mother lives with her husband (STEP DAD). The STEP DAD is a care free and violent man.

We see the everyday struggles of the MINE, she tends to her young brother. Her mother hates her because she is a bastard child. MINES’S mum conceived at a young age and sees her as a stumbling block to moving on with her life. The STEP DAD also hates her and even attempts to abuse her.

She loves spending time with her little brother and often stares at her dad’s picture hoping one day she’ll find him.

She steals money one day to go out in search of her father who she believes from the picture, lives in Machakos. She escapes home when a fight breaks out to go and search for her dad. She wanders around asking, with a photograph and never finds him.