The Kenyan writer, screenwriter and director Wanjiru Kinyanjui (*1958) studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 1987 to 1995. In addition to her graduation film THE BATTLE OF THE SACRED TREE, she has selected Safi Faye's MAN SA YAY for this evening, which will take place at Sinema Transtopia as part of KineKiez in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Faye, a Senegalese filmmaker and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program alumnus, made it for German television in 1980.