{"id":894,"date":"2010-12-27T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T06:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:33:52","slug":"imani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/imani\/","title":{"rendered":"IMANI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her first feature film, Ugandan director Caroline Kamya tells three stories of contemporary Uganda. Mary is a maid working in an upper-class household in the suburbs, who suddenly needs to raise money to pay a bribe to get her wrongly accused sister out of jail. Olweny is a child soldier returning to his home village after years of war and rehabilitation. Armstrong is a successful break-dancer and DJ who returns to the slums of Kampala and needs to come to terms with a former friend and gang leader. The three never meet, but their stories reveal much about life in present-day Uganda and about <em>imani<\/em>, which means \u201cfaith\u201d<em> <\/em>in Swahili. Like the stories it tells, the film is a striking blend of the traditional and the contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>In English and Swahili with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<h3>Trailer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AIT0vkxSFFc\" frameborder=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her first feature film, Ugandan director Caroline Kamya tells three stories of contemporary Uganda. Mary is a maid working in an upper-class household in the suburbs, who suddenly needs to raise money to pay a bribe to get her wrongly accused sister out of jail. Olweny is a child soldier returning to his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}