From a Whisper is the new movie by Kenyan director and script-writer, Wanuri Kahiu. It commemorates the 10th anniversary of August 7th terrorist bombing in Kenya in 1998, in which over 250 people died and more than 5,000 were injured.
From a Whisper, shot along the thinking that fiction reveals truths that reality obscures, isn’t about the bombing per se, but the aftermath of the bombing on the lives of the indirect victims of the blast who were forced to learn how to live past the tragedy that shattered their lives.
The film stars: Tamani (Corine Onyango), an angry and rebellious Muslim teenage girl whose mother went missing during the bomb blast.