Naishe Nyamubaya

James, a disgraced preacher exiled after a city scandal, is assigned to build a new church in a distant rural community. However, the land bought by the church is occupied by Chirongoma, a revered traditional healer. As a fierce rivalry breaks out between James and Chirongoma over the land, God Sleeps on Sundays presents a timely critique on the imperialist nature of religion in displacing Indigenous communities and eroding ancestral traditions.

We follow Mother Nature and her three children, rabbit, toad and leech. One child is a farmer, one child is a miner and the last is an oil driller. Her children are always hungry and must continuously be fed. Unchecked, the children's appetites threaten to kill their mother.