Mbambu and the Mountains of the Moon

Mbambu doesn’t want to cause any trouble but she’s sixteen and her life is already taking a different course than her parents’. Mbambu lives in the village of Kilembe, Uganda, a hamlet perched in the shadows of the Mountains of the Moon. It’s a place where tradition and defined gender roles hold sway. Mbambu wants to be the first in her family to get a secondary education and to do so, she becomes a mountain guide, an occupation traditionally held by men. Mbambu is undaunted. With the blessings of her mother and grandmother, she dons men’s trousers and enlists a famous former poacher to teach her the trade. Learning is not enough for Mbamu and she turns activist. She joins the amateur theatre group and together they spread the word about saving nature in her beautiful Mountains of the Moon.