After the Long Rains

Film

by Damien Hauser

Details

Switzerland, Kenya / 2023 / 90mins / Drama, Coming of Age / Swahili

Ten year old Aisha is given a school assignment to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realizes that everyone is taking over their parents' businesses and professions, but she has bigger dreams. She wants to go to Europe and become an actress. Her plan is to become a fisher so that she can sail to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Despite all this, she meets a fisherman and alcoholic named Hassan, who promises to teach her how to fish.

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About the Director

Damien Hauser

Damien Hauser is an Filmmaker based in Switzerland. He was born in Zurich in 2001. At the age of seven, he began producing short films. He studied at the film school SAE from 2016 to 2020 and worked for a commercial-production company called FILME VON DRAUSSEN from 2018 to 2020.
He used to make his own short films together with friends and took on all kinds of jobs such as music videos, plays and commercials. But his greatest passion has always been fictional storytelling. Nowadays he focuses on directing and scriptwriting. Learn More