A WOMAN LIKE ME
Director: Mark Wambui
Country: Kenya
Content: Documentary Short
A pregnant Maasai woman fights for the agency of her first child, a daughter, while trapped in intergenerational cultural traditions.
Selina Nkoile, a FGM survivor and the main subject in our documentary, A Woman Like Me.
When her mother arranges a cutting ceremony behind her back, Selina Nkoile believes their relationship is destroyed. Now, a decade later, she is forced to confront her past as she prepares for the birth of her first child… a daughter.