'The Letter' Exposes Real Witch Hunts Against Elders in Kenya

A version of this story about “The Letter” first appeared in the International Films issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Maia Lekow and Christopher King’s Kenyan documentary “The Letter” follows a young man, Karisa, who returns to the village where his grandmother, Margaret Karango, is being accused of witchcraft by some neighbors and family members. Those kind of accusations have been frequent in some areas of Kenya in recent years, and have been used to take away property from elde...