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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Chips and Liver Girls

    If you’re a girl in a city like Kampala, and you want everything, you have to give everything. She wants to survive, or to study.…
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  • Speak

    The Ugandan logline is ‘Obusilise bwogezi’, which means ‘silence speaks’. The protagonist is the deaf and dumb girl Hope, who is closely followed duri
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  • Imani

    The great technical accomplishment and complex narrative structure of Imani are exceptional in African cinema, and have led comparisons with Magnolia.
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  • Rough Boy

    He’s not a rough boy really, as long as he takes his medicine and can sit peacefully in the garden. A seemingly quiet day in…
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  • Snake

    In this film, the snake is a mythical Chinese creature – but also a concrete thought in search of direction. Experimental hip-hop filmmaker also tries
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  • Kengere

    Experimental, political puppet animation is a remarkable exception in African cinema. Made with patience and barely contained rage.
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  • Creation Lab

    A young fashion designer and hip-hop video maker travelled to the interior of Uganda to record the colourful Kiga dance. He projects the recordings in
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  • Ink

    This silent film restricts itself to the inner world of a ten-year-old girl who creates another reality using paper silhouettes.
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  • Blind Date

    Inspired by the Baganda tribal creation myth of Kintu, the first man and woman on earth are observed during their sensual awakening.
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  • Where Are You Taking Me?

    Thoughtful yet certainly not shy American film maker has plenty to look at in Uganda. She moves in the exciting hip-hop youth culture of the…
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