Kenyan Short Film Nominated For Oscar Tells Tale Of Survival

By DESMOND TIRO, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 3:27am

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An extremist attack in Kenya inspired a short film that is in the running for an Academy Award. "Watu Wote" means "All of Us" in Swahili. The film depicts the true story of an al-Shabab extremist assault on a bus in northern Kenya just before Christmas in 2015.

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