What began as an archive of testimonies by members of the LGBT community in Kenya, compiled by a local group of visual artists, eventually turned into such an exciting project that it was brought to the big screen. Made on a shoestring budget and on practically home movie equipment, the five narratives that form Stories of Our Lives caused quite a stir at the Toronto Film Festival. A poetic, intimate soundtrack keeps the rhythm going for sixty minutes of white and black footage in which we follow true stories in real rural and urban settings where love, sex, rejection, betrayal, dreams and hopes sketch a multi-faceted map of the human geography, characterised by anxiety and powerful feelings. And all this, in a country where homophobia is a permanent fact. A veritable pearl of independent, auteur cinema, the result of committed work by the multidisciplinary art group Nest Collective.