Whose story gets told when the land remembers everything?

Kikuyu Land is a feature documentary about a community’s quiet defiance and the echoes of a past that refuses to stay buried.

When a news producer returns to Kenya’s tea highlands and connects with a former plantation resident and a local land claimant, the familiar landscape becomes a living record of suppressed stories. The tea fields carry contested histories, families hold generational wounds, and a community remains bound by both loss and determination.

Working with sources who often stay out of sight for their own safety, the investigation reveals decades of concealed evidence tied to a land dispute that has shaped the lives of workers, families, and landowners. As the search for justice moves forward, the personal stakes within the investigation come into focus, showing how the past continues to shape the present. Part investigation and part homecoming, Kikuyu Land is a poetic journey through memory, land, and legacy.​