Silvia Is My Name
Silvia lives in southern Kenya, in Maasailand, and fights for women’s rights. She helps young, pregnant girls and raped women. She talks about the dangers of female circumcision to the elders. She regularly faces resistance, as traditional patriarchal thinking is hard to let go of. But even though she encounters many obstacles, she continues her struggle for women’s rights and equality.
Benyo has worked as an actor under his real name, Max Hegewald, since 2005, and has acted at the Volksbühne Berlin theatre since 2007. He directs and writes under the pseudonym Benyo. In 2016 he graduated in screenwriting from the Filmuniversity Babelsberg Potsdam with his graduation film, Silvia. He is currently developing his debut film, Blackbird, and is working on an adaptation of Claudia Rinkes' novel, The Bride, as well as a coming-of-age drama, Tinnitus. He will graduate from the Hamburg Mediaschool as a director.