“Kikuyu Land,” a documentary by Kenyan director Bea Wangondu and American filmmaker Andrew H. Brown, examines the enduring consequences of British colonial land seizures in Kenya. During the colonial era, authorities seized the country’s fertile central highlands for white settlers, resulting in the displacement of African communities and the conversion of their ancestral territories into agricultural plantations. Although a redistribution program beginning in 1962 purchased about 1.15 million acres from 780 white farmers and sold them to roughly 35,000 Kenyan families, much of the land remained under political and foreign corporate control, including large tea corporations. Wangondu’s own question about why her grandfather owned so much land drives the film, which also follows a man named Mungai as he tries to reclaim his family’s territory. After debuting at Sundance in January and Sheffield DocFest in June, Kikuyu Land opened on screens in Nairobi on October 2.