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PILI

by Leanne Welham

synopsis

Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life?

original title: Pili
country: United Kingdom
sales agent: Studio Soho International
year: 2017
genre: fiction
directed by: Leanne Welham
film run: 83'
screenplay: Leanne Welham, Sophie Harman
cast: Bello Rashid, Nkwabi Elias Ng'angasamala, Sesilia Florian Kilimila, Sikijua Rashid, Mwanaidi Omari Sefi
cinematography by: Craig Dean Devine
film editing: Kant Pan
music: Tim Morrish
producer: Sophie Harman
executive producer: Sophie Harman, Leanne Welham
distributor: Studio Soho Distribution

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