The Letter

When Karisa receives a letter from relatives alerting him of accusations of witchcraft levelled against his grandmother, he rushes back home.

Karisa’s city-life is interrupted when his Grandma back home is called a witch.Returning to his rural village to investigate, he finds a frenzied mixture of consumerism and Christianity is turning hundreds of families against their elders, branding them as witches as a means to steal their ancestral land.

This richly layered documentary unfolds, exposing tensions caused by a volatile mix of Christianity, consumerism, and misogyny. Young Kenyan men ...