{"id":497,"date":"2022-04-17T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/index.php\/films\/ni-sisi-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:13:51","slug":"watatu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/films\/watatu\/","title":{"rendered":"Watatu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"padding-left:5%;padding-right:5%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-top:10%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container alignfull gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\" style=\"max-width:1000px\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watatu<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by Ali Mlatso &amp; Nick Reding<br><span class=\"dashicons dashicons-calendar-alt\"><\/span> 2015 | <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-clock\"><\/span> 1h 15m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-theme-primary-color has-css-opacity has-theme-primary-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-left:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-top:2%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container alignfull gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\" style=\"max-width:1000px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watatu trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UaGaBGk0e6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-left:2%;padding-right:2%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container alignfull gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\" style=\"max-width:680px\">\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Watatu, set in Mombasa, tackles extremism on the Kenyan Coast. It provides a counter-narrative to that given by extremist groups, looking to radicalise young men and women. Watatu also looks at the fractured relationship between the security services and the youth, with extrajudicial killings on the rise, tensions between the two are worsening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watatu, is the story of three men whose lives become intertwined as one of them, Yusuf, a young unemployed Muslim, becomes radicalised by an extremist group. Yusuf\u2019s family and friends feel powerless to help him. His uncle and only father figure Salim cannot find the words to counter the extremist ideology and Salim\u2019s old friend Jack, a local policeman, struggles to gain Yusuf\u2019s trust. As tensions rise in the port city, Yusuf is eventually driven to a desperate and tragic act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, the film becomes a documentary as the film actors take this story as a theatre play to the real communities of Mombasa. These live audiences are then given a chance to take over the roles of Yusuf\u2019s uncle, mother and sister and see if they can change the outcome of the story. Can the people of Mombasa stop Yusuf before he reaches the point of no return?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of the film \u2013 written entirely by the citizens of Mombasa themselves \u2013 sees an alternative journey for Yusuf, his family, and Kenya\u2019s Indian Ocean city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding-left:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:5%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container alignfull gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\" style=\"max-width:850px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-4 gb-4-col-equal\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap 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It provides a counter-narrative to that given by extremist groups, looking to radicalise young men and women. Watatu also looks at the fractured relationship between the security services and the youth, with extrajudicial killings on the rise, tensions between the two are worsening. Watatu, is the story of three men whose lives become intertwined as one of them, Yusuf, a young unemployed Muslim, becomes radicalised by an extremist group. Yusuf\u2019s family and friends feel powerless to help him.&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"","author_info":{"name":"Jose","url":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/author\/jose-luis\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions\/1341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safekenya.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}