Thank you for the Rain

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Julia Dahr
  • United Kingdom, Norway, Kenya 2017
  • 85 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Norwegian filmmaker Julia Dahr set out to make a film that would foreground the human dimension of global warming. When she met Kisilu Musya, she found an eager collaborator.

A farmer, a husband and father of seven, Kisilu uses his camera to capture the impacts of extreme weather on his family and village in Kenya. He has filmed floods, droughts and storms, and the way they force men to leave their families behind in search for jobs. Travelling to Paris to present his footage to delegates at the UN Climate Talks, Kisilu finds himself on the biggest political journey of his life.

Feature Length Debut


  • Director Julia Dahr
  • Production Hugh Hartford
  • Script Julia Dahr, Hugh Hartford
  • Cinematography Julie Lunde Lillesaeter
  • Editing Adam Thomas
  • Music Chris White
  • Festivals Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc
  • Source Autlook Filmsales, Vienna