Italian director Michele Cadei has crafted a parable on modern consumption through Olapa (Moon), his gently observed film about the people living in the traditional Maasai village of Oloimugi, in Central Kenya. “There is a different conception of time there,” says Cadei, who visited the region in 2014 and documented the villagers for two weeks. “The day is not divided into 24 hours, instead there is a flow that follows nature, starting when the sun rises and the birds wake you up.” 

The Maasai people live a sustainable lifestyle and have done so for millennia, following a diet of milk, blood, and beef. “They do not produce waste,” marvels the London-based filmmaker. “During the two weeks of my stay we created less rubbish than I did myself during a single meal on my flight back to London. I took a picture of the food package on the plane as a reminder.”