Release dates
April 19, 2019
75 months agoCinema
Released
TBA
Rafiki release date
The movie Rafiki is already released on Cinema in the USA. The upcoming VOD release date in the USA is to be announced, upcoming DVD release date in the USA is to be announced and the upcoming Blu-ray release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 9 reviews, Rafiki gets an average review score of 70
The hopefulness that forms from this turmoil can’t be discounted, though. No matter how dark things get, there remain glimmers of hope even if via knowingly silent support rather than outspoken action.
2219d ago
Romeo and Juliet are reborn in Kenya in the vibrant lesbian romance Rafiki
2219d ago
“Rafiki” is a lesbian romance set in a place where such love stories, in real life and onscreen, are forbidden by law.
2219d ago
The first Kenyan film to ever screen at the festival is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is
2219d ago
Shamefully banned in its home country of Kenya, Wanuri Kahiu's tender tale of first lesbian love is modest, flawed and valuable.
2219d ago
This is a love story for the time, not for the ages.
2219d ago
The audacity of the film’s assertion of a queer African identity shouldn’t be overlooked.
2219d ago
Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu traces the bloom of a lesbian teen romance in the homophobic environment of a Nairobi housing estate in this minor-key drama banned in its home country.
2219d ago
Banned in its home country, Wauri Kahiu’s tale of two teenagers’ secret relationship is a fine – if conventional – depiction of the first flush of love
2219d ago