Turkana

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are 18.

Michelle, who grew up in Turkana where the film was shot, kept these girls in mind when portraying Nawi's emotions - a performance that won her an Africa Movie Academy Award for best promising actor last November.

However, she than goes back home to Turkana to bravely confront them when she finds out that her new baby sister has been promised to Shadrack as a replacement bride.

Some backlash to the film is "very much expected" in Turkana, she says.

In Turkana, Apuu Mourrine, one of the film's Kenyan directors, has organised free screenings of Nawi at the Kakuma refugee camp.