Zanzibar Blue
The tide keeps its own calendar.
2025 · 12 · 48m
Zanzibar Blue
2025 · 48m · Drama, Documentary
A Swahili fishing family weathers a changing ocean and a changing island across three seasons.
The tide keeps its own calendar. Filmed for BMT Studios and streaming exclusively on BMT Direct, the production was made with communities on screen rather than about them. Local crews, local scholars, and locations that carry the story.
Available in Swahili, English with subtitles in English, Arabic, French. Rated family-friendly by the BMT editorial standards board.
Cast & crew
- Director
- Fatma Juma
- Format
- series
- Released
- 2025
- Duration
- 48m
- Certificate
- 12
- Faith rating
- Family-Friendly
- Audio
- Swahili, English
- Subtitles
- English, Arabic, French
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Regions
- AFRICA, GLOBAL
Episodes
1. The Return
48m
Zanzibar Blue continues as the story widens. Season 1, episode 1 follows the consequences of the choices made before the adhan.
2. Salt and Sand
48m
Zanzibar Blue continues as the story widens. Season 1, episode 2 follows the consequences of the choices made before the adhan.
3. Names We Carry
48m
Zanzibar Blue continues as the story widens. Season 1, episode 3 follows the consequences of the choices made before the adhan.
4. First Light
48m
Zanzibar Blue continues as the story widens. Season 1, episode 4 follows the consequences of the choices made before the adhan.
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