Somewhere in Kenya, an old fisherman called Mashoud strongly believes in his stories. Stories in which the sea is a spirit, where men can talk to fishes, and seahorses dance on the waves. The one Mashoud prefers is about his inexorable desire to capture a giant shark with his bare hands. After living for many years in England, director Jeroen van Velzen decides to go back to Kenya, where he grew up listening to these kinds of stories. He enters the world of memories, myths and supernatural so characteristic of the traditional art of African storytelling.
After finishing high school in England and a orientation year at the Brighton College of Technology (Fine Arts), Jeroen van Velzen studied documentary directing at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. During his third year he made the short film Drieduizend meter boven de wolken about his autistic brother. In 2009 he graduated with the film Baba. Wavumba is Jeroen's first feature documentary.
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