Kikuyu Land Trailer Previews Kenya Tea Highlands Fight Ahead of Cinema Release
The trailer for Kikuyu Land is out, ahead of cinema openings in the United Kingdom and the United States in October and November.
Deadline premiered the exclusive trailer on 17 September for the documentary directed by Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu. The film runs 93 minutes and is listed as a Kenya-United States production.
The documentary centres on land seizure in the tea highlands of Kenya. It traces ground taken from local people by the British during colonial rule and the long dispute that followed, according to Deadline.
At the centre are two personal stories. Mr. Mungai seeks justice for land taken from his family, a claim that puts him in conflict with a multinational company operating on the contested ground. Stephen, the son of a tea worker, grows up inside the plantations at the heart of that dispute.
The film began in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, the festival section for documentaries made outside the United States. It has since played at more than 40 festivals in the US and internationally, including the 2026 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the 2026 Florida Film Festival. In May it won Best Documentary Feature at the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado.
The rollout starts with cinemas. Kikuyu Land is set to open in UK cinemas on 2 October. It follows in Los Angeles on 9 October at the Monica Film Center, then starts a run in New York City on 13 November at DCTV Firehouse Cinema.
Behind the camera, Brown shot the film and also edited it. The original score is by Nyokabi Kariuki and Keir Vine. Producers are Moses Bwayo, Wangondu, Brown, Mike Morrisroe for Trifilm Studios, and Joseph Njenga, with Tracy Rector, Amanda Brown, Mia Vyzis and Barbara Terzieff as executive producers.
Wangondu, who co-directs, is a journalist by background. Her search for truth and justice for the Kikuyu peoples forms part of the film’s thread.
