Kakuma in Kenya, is one of the biggest refugee camps in the Horn of Africa. Many children in the camp live without their parents. Phone numbers then remain the only fragile threads that connect them. But due to conflict situations, phone numbers quickly get lost and the children lose all contact with their families. Dot, Nyakong, Souade, Claude, Mitu & Amina and thousands of others are in search for their parents. But how do you that? And how do you fill the days, waiting for them?

The teenagers of Kakuma helped to design an app to reconnect families. They spread the app over the camp and very quickly 3000 children had signed up. When sharing their personal data in the app, these children all receive an avatar in this interactive documentary. Their avatars are placed on a map of Kakuma; every avatar represents a real person living in Kakuma.

Combining documentary storytelling, gaming elements and the impact of digital innovation in refugee situations, the interactive documentary, Find me Kaluma wants to make this invisible reality more visible. Go to https://www.findmeinkakuma.com/ and try it out!

Written & directed by Lieven Corthouts and Fabienne Giezendanner
Produced by Cassette for timescapes in coproduction with Zéro de Conduite Productions.
Status: completed

Post Bills: national Belgian press launch