Director
Peter Murimi
Director
Daphne Matziaraki
Producer
Toni Kamau
Production support
Impact campaign support
Film Details
Format: Feature length film
Doc Society Involvement
Docsoc helped with Production
Docsoc helped with an Impact Campaign
Climate change and unresolved historical injustices raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in a wildlife conservation haven.
Awards & Festivals
Awards
Festival Screenings
Reviews
The documentarians invested several years in the project and it pays off in this impressively balanced assessment of a conflict over land that has been exacerbated by climate change and drought
At once patient and rigorous, this is a film that superbly demonstrates how the conflicts of the present cannot be extricated from the baggage of the past.
Directors Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki aim to give both sides of the story in this survey of an ugly situation which has often been co-opted by political campaigners for their own nefarious ends.
This is a sober, informative film that shows a nation that has been independent for more than 60 years, yet is still haunted by the very active spectre of colonialism.
A documentary crafted with a knowing compassion and sincere empathy of a brutal, tough subject with weighty themes of colonialism, conservation, and climate change. The film does an excellent job showing both sides of an unfortunate situation.
While “The Battle of Laikipia” centers on a standstill, the co-directors have the freedom of movement to expose the issues preventing a compromise.
[O]ffers a laudably even-handed portrait of the battle for Laikipia. Nobody is a hero here and nobody is a villain.
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