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\n\tTanzania-born director Neema Ngelime is working on her feature documentary debut. And the essayistic project has a title with poetic vibes: The Ones With the Tempered Flowers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was among the works-in-progress presented at the 2026 edition of\u00a0Open Doors, the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival\u2018s co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity-seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Tanzania-Kenya co-production is being produced by Ivy Kiru. The filmmaker has so far made shorts, namely A Country\u00a0In\u00a0A\u00a0Corner<\/em>, Hooyo, Why Here<\/em> and An Ode\u00a0to\u00a0A\u00a0Time I Loved Bread<\/em>. At the end of the Locarno Open Doors program, her new project won the S\u00f8rfond\u202fAward\u202f and the ARTEKino\u00a0International Award\u202f.<\/p>\n

\nTHR<\/em>\u00a0has compiled highlights about the movie and insight from Ngelime about\u00a0The Ones With the Tempered Flowers<\/em><\/em>\u00a0and the themes it explores.<\/p>\n

\nSynopsis
<\/strong>For Neema, being a woman has always meant a script: school, marriage, babies. When a doctor tells filmmaker Neema that having children might be hard, she doesn\u2019t expect it to confuse her. Those expectations wound her. Raised in a multi-religious home, her identity was forged by questions of what is haram and what would please Jesus. All Neema cared about was which hell she\u2019d end up in. <\/p>\n

\n\tTo her, the older women in her family are a mystery beyond work and family. Their lives feel prophetic to her own. She and her sister try to rewrite their scripts through tarot. Her father taught her that anything is possible. Now he reminds her of her fate.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe stages performances with her family, reenacting fragments of their lives. They believe these are fictions. But they\u2019re memories, repurposed, hidden truths surfacing through play. This is the story of a woman studying her body\u2019s relationship to self, society, and the political weight placed on women\u2019s bodies in Tanzania, challenging duty masked as love.<\/p>\n

Director\u2019s note<\/strong>
Growing up\u00a0felt like watching\u00a0the women I loved fade into mysteries. Now, with fibroids, a condition society pins on \u201cunused\u201d\u00a0womanhood,\u00a0I fear becoming a mystery too, lost to the weight of expectations.\u00a0 The women in my life shaped me deeply, yet I knew little about who they were before becoming mothers or wives. This erasure fills me with grief. <\/p>\n

\n\tThrough this film, I\u00a0channel\u00a0that grief, exploring how families shape dreams,\u00a0identity\u00a0and autonomy. I look inward and center myself and my family to reflect on my past and imagine my future.\u00a0 The film relies on\u00a0metaphor\u00a0to reflect the absurdity of how womanhood is confined. It captures the reality of existing in a patriarchal world, where women are bound by timed beauty and defined by their choice to give birth. While rooted in the experiences of young African women, it speaks to a universal audience, inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationships with identity,\u00a0self-expression\u00a0and societal constructs.<\/p>\n

\nWhat was the inspiration for you, personal or otherwise, to want to make this film?<\/strong>
The film itself starts from a personal point of view, from my confronting and going through an
existential crisis because of my diagnosis. When I got my diagnosis, I was angry that I found out
so late in life that this could happen, and angry at how it could happen. I was also angry at how
little interest there is in understanding women\u2019s bodies. <\/p>\n

Out of that, the film became about someone wanting to find answers. So in a way, this was my way of creating a space for people going through what I\u2019m going through, a space to talk. But mostly, it was a way to have these conversations with the people close to us, i.e. our families. Making my small inquiries with the people I love, that is the inspiration.<\/p>\n

Can you share some thoughts on how universal the themes of the film are, and why people outside your home should see it?<\/strong>
The universal themes are womanhood and its place in 21st-century society, identity, and curiosity as an act of care across generations.<\/p>\n

Do you know what the next step or focus for you and any collaborators on the film will be after Open Doors?<\/strong>
We\u2019re going back home with so much clarity, thanks to the guidance we\u2019ve received. I\u2019m going to
continue my treatment, and the project will also participate in the Durban FilmMart in October,
and the S\u00f8rfond pitching event in November<\/p>\n

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