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A young woman walks into the afterlife in ‘Kati Kati,’ a remarkable first feature by director Mbithi
Masya of Kenya, playing again Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the Portland International Film Festival.
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As the Portland International
Film Festival draws to a close, it
looks like I will catch at least 40
screenings. Here are five films that
are among those you can see in the
final days of PIFF:
“Kati Kati,” a Kenyan/Ger-
man production set in the after-
life, is one of the most intriguing
films I’ve seen at PIFF this year. It
opens with a young woman wan-
dering in the Kenyan grasslands.
She walks onto the grounds of a
resort with about 20 other young
Kenyans, and one of them informs
her that she has arrived at Kati
Kati, and she is there because she
(like the other residents) is dead.
Her predictable attempt to run re-
veals that isn’t an option. Appar-
ently unlike the rest, the young
Photo Courtesy Z eitgeist F ilMs
Chen Gang is taxi driver Lao Shi in ‘Old Stone,’ a gritty, realistic
style film presenting a grim view of modern-day China.
woman, Kaleche, has no idea of answers that satisfy. It’s a smart
her own history or life, and her choice for the filmmaker, who
questions frequently don’t elicit keeps us in a state of emerging
consciousness that helps us empa-
thize with these souls, who need
to make a transition but fight to
understand what and how. Their
world contains enough details
to feel real, but the director still
leaves a lot unanswered, so that
we, like Kaleche, are left to strug-
gle to find what progress from this
place requires and will mean. It’s a
remarkable first feature for direc-
tor Mbithi Masya, and plays again
on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
“Maliglutit” seeks to be a
western, but one faithful to the
life of Inuit people. Inspired by
the classic John Ford film, “The
Searchers,” it immerses the audi-
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