
Witness - Man from the Mountains of the Moon
Clovis Kabaseke lives in the mountains of western Uganda, an area locals call the Mountains of the Moon, and he is trying to solve two problems at once: malaria and poverty. His method is Artemisia, the herb behind the frontline malaria drug artemisinin, which he cultivates himself and teaches his neighbors to grow. The film follows him through his fields and into his home, where interviews with him and his family lay out how the business works, drying and processing the plant into products he sells locally rather than relying on imported medicine or outside aid. It also sits with the harder context behind his effort: clinics that are hours away, families who cannot afford treatment, and a disease that keeps returning each rainy season. There is no narrator explaining Artemisia's contested medical status from the outside; the film stays close to Kabaseke's own account of what has worked for the people around him and what has not.