Following a group of young Maasai who, in a remote region of Kenya, have formed a cricket team. They relate the sport to their traditional hunting techniques the ball is the spear, the bat is the shield and their flowing red robes in full flight are an awesome sight. The film follows the team as they pursue their dream of reaching England, the home of cricket, and test themselves in the amateur Last Man Stands World Championship. But there is a darker heart to the story. The Maasai are male dominated, women have few rights even to their own bodies and girls as... young as six have suffered Female Genital Mutilation and early marriages. [show more]
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Barney Douglas directs this documentary about the Maasai warriors cricket team. The film follows the Kenyan team as they travel to the home of cricket to participate in the Last Man Stands cricket finals in London and tells the story of their formation. The documentary chronicles the team's struggles to play and practice together which included convincing their elders to give them a patch of land and highlights the young men's efforts to confront some of their tribe's patriarchal prejudices and controversial traditional practices. But can cricket really bring any lasting change to the remote region of the Maasai?
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