(2022) Samira's Dreams (Ndoto Ya Samira)
(In Swahili with English subtitles)
DOCUMENTARY
Documentary filmmaker Nino Tropiano stumbles onto an ambitious student, Samira and he decides to document her journey through a time span of seven years to become a certified teacher. From studying with her best friend, Shamsa to how she met and married her husband Mohomed to how she was able to handle her brothers and sisters as her dad had affairs with three different women.
What is interesting about this is Samira's culture and barriers she has to go through to get through to her studies to which she has barely passed as opposed to some of her peers who eventually give up and get married instead. Her studies also required money she often needs to ask her father for sometimes.
Documentary filmmaker Nino Tropiano stumbles onto an ambitious student, Samira and he decides to document her journey through a time span of seven years to become a certified teacher. From studying with her best friend, Shamsa to how she met and married her husband Mohomed to how she was able to handle her brothers and sisters as her dad had affairs with three different women.
What is interesting about this is Samira's culture and barriers she has to go through to get through to her studies to which she has barely passed as opposed to some of her peers who eventually give up and get married instead. Her studies also required money she often needs to ask her father for sometimes.