| The Cut | |
| Director: | Peter Wangugi Gitau |
| Starring: | Ibrahim Rashid, Halima Jatan, Onesmus Kamau and Miriam Kinuthia |
| Runtime: | 63 minutes |
| Country: | Kenya |
| Language: | Swahili English |
The Cut is a 2017 Kenyan film directed by Peter Wangugi Gitau.[1]
The film is about a young boy who is trying to save his younger sister from an early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation. The children manage to escape their plights and end up in a very unforgiving situation.[2]
A participatory approach was adopted in the development of the film. To form a foundation for the script, children from the AMREF Dagoretti Child Protection and Development Centre penned down their experiences, and those of the society around them, which inspired the script touching on topics such as the abuse of children’s rights, alcoholism, maternal health and child marriage.[3]
The Cut (2017) premiered at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival in San Jose, on 30 September 2018.[4] The film premiered in Kenya on 16 May 2018 at the 'European Film Festival' in Nairobi.[5] 'The Cut' has also screened at the 2017 Cape Town International Film Market and Festival in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 October 2017, at the Toronto Black Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on 16 February 2018.