Uganda Movies

Mbambu is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda. She is also an actress, an aspiring mountain guide and...

Marteria and Maeckes in Uganda. ZDFkultur host Rainer Maria Jilg accompanies the two rappers to Africa. The trip was organized by the charity Viva...

When an indigenous woman is torn from her home, she must do anything she can to feed her young son.

A fly has flown into the room of a king of a country that has never been. The king asks the court master, the chief hunter, and the sling master to...

A father and his 7-year-old daughter desperately hold onto each other and their faiths when they realise they may never see each other again. Both...

Uganda Abayudaya (Jewish) elder J.J. Keki and his sons hike and sing their way to the cave synagogue where Jews prayed secretly during dictator Idi...

A woman stuck in a cycle of routine, obligation and guilt figures out a way to reset her life amidst a feminist uprising.

Grammy-nominated Ugandan Jewish singer Rachel Namadosi reflects on growing up Jewish in Uganda as she goes about her busy day and looks forward to...

Million Dollar in the hands of a Ugandan Ghetto Kid.

The debut film from director Nabwana I.G.G.

IHAMBA is a powerful, character-driven documentary that traces the enduring connection between the Batwa tribe and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of...

A young widow in a remote fishing village in Uganda defies a centuries-old tradition.

In this poetic portrait of a Ugandan tradition, Masaka’s grasshopper catchers light up the sky.

Once, the land Steven Bukaya farms was green and full — a place of trees, rain, and steady seasons. He remembers it as "a shiny place," alive...

Nancy decided to move on with her life, yet abandoning her own daughter to another man, not knowing that one day her own daughter was to save her dad.

One night in Beijing, a Uyghur boy called Mustafa is out with his friends. He meets a Uyghur girl with a headscarf. After spending the night with...

A History of Film in Uganda is a film essay/documentary that documents the the birth and evolution of Film and TV production as a cultural practice...

A portrait of the everyday life of teenage girls in the sensitive ecosystem of a boarding school, where an entirely normal morning can quickly give...

Young woman moves to city to help her rural-poverty family make ends meet... but she ends up being trapped into international sex slavery.

When their son is born with a mental disability, a young couple struggles with social stigma as they pursue medical and spiritual treatments for him.