The Battle for Laikipia

• Duration: 94 minutes
• Director: Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi
• Country: Kenya, United States
• Year: 2024
• Rating: (12A)

Shown in Partnership with Broadway.

For centuries, Kenya’s Laikipia region has been a grazing route for Indigenous pastoralist communities. It is also home to white ranchers and conservationists who settled during the British colonial era and stayed after Kenya’s independence in 1963. The pastoralists, the ranchers, and conservancies all rely on Laikipia’s grasslands to sustain their cattle and the wildlife. Since 2017, they have been filmed as they confront the ravaging effects of climate change. When drought and elections collide, conflict erupts. The filmmakers explore identity, the complicated legacy of British colonialism, and the intersection with climate change at the planet’s most fragile moment.