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Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally modified equatorial climate. As of 2023, it has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala, and whose language Luganda is widely spoken throughout the country. From 1894, the area was ruled as a protectorate by the United Kingdom, which established administrative law across the territory. Uganda gained independence from the UK on 9 October 1962. The period since then has been marked by violent conflicts, including an eight-year-long military dictatorship led by Idi Amin. The official language is English, although the Constitution states that "any other language may be used as a medium of instruction in... ()
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Bobi Wine: The People's President(2023)

2h 1min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Uganda has one the youngest populations in the world and one of its most flagrantly anti-democratic governments. These are ingredients for revolution, and Bobi Wine and his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi are stirring the pot. When the charismatic Bobi, a musician and member of parliament, announces his campaign for president, Uganda’s youth are ecstatic, filling parks and streets for every speech, and singing Bobi’s anthems of peace and freedom. But then comes the crackdown, orchestrated by Yoweri Museveni, a brutal dictator who has ruled Uganda for 36 years. Bobi and his crew survive arrests, beatings, torture, riots and raids.

Chimpanzee(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 18min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.

Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield - With Tim Allen
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Who Killed Captain Alex?(2015)

1h 4min | Action, Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain is killed.

Directed by Isaac Nabwana

The Girl in the Yellow Jumper(2020)

1h 21min | Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

As word spreads that there is a serial killer at large who continues to commit murder, an off-duty police officer must return an elderly witness who lives in a remote part of Uganda back to town. Along the way, the policeman gives a ride to an injured man. On the way to the city, the passenger tells the policeman the events that led him to end up injured in the middle of the road. But as we travel with these mysterious characters in the car, director Loukman Ali shows us that the stories they tell are only fragmentary and partial versions of the events that took place, and that perhaps there are truths buried beneath each of their words.

Directed by Loukman Ali - With Rehema Nanfuka, Michael Wawuyo Jr., Michael Wawuyo, Maurice Kirya, Oyenbot

ABC Africa(2001)

1h 24min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami - With Abbas Kiarostami

Escape from Uganda(2013)

1h 54min | Thriller
2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Shikha Samuel (Rima Killingal) and Jayakrishnan (Vijay Babu) have eloped and made Uganda their home with the help of Advocate Firoz (Mukesh), who is practising law there. The couple is leading a happy life with a girl child of their own. Jayakrishnan is employed as a manager in a coffee shop and Shikha runs a designer boutique of her own. The tranquillity of their life is shattered when Shikha is arrested on the charges of committing two murders, one of the victim is the daughter of the local Mayor, who has pledged to keep her in jail for the rest of her life.

Directed by Rajesh Nair - With Rima Kallingal

Bad Black(2016)

1h 12min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.

Directed by Isaac Nabwana

Call Me Kuchu(2012)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Directed by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright

Kevin(2022)

1h 21min | Documentary

It is the first time that Joana, a Brazilian, has visited her friend Kevin in her country, Uganda. They met 20 years ago when they studied together in Germany and have not seen each other for a long time. Now they are close to turning 40 and life is more complex than in youth. This is a film about a friendship between women.

Rise of the Warrior Apes(2017)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda – featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances and destroyed trust.

Leaving Africa(2015)

1h 24min | Documentary, Drama

Riitta and Catherine live together in Uganda. By day the two sixtysomethings provide sexual health and equality education for Catholics, Muslims and Anglicans alike. By night they smoke, do crosswords and don’t shy away from frank discussions. Riitta's long career empowering women in Africa is coming to a close, but Ugandan government is trying their best to shut down their sex-ed program during her last months in Africa.

Directed by Iiris Härmä

Imani(2011)

1h 22min | Drama

This searing drama from director Caroline Kamya follows three Ugandans as they struggle through the violence and corruption of their society, including the story of a maid (Rehema Nanfuka) forced to bribe crooked cops in order to free her sister. Other threads include a hip-hop dancer (Philip Buyi Roy) who tangles with an underworld crime lord and a former child soldier (Stephen Ocen) who journeys home to his war-torn village.

Directed by Caroline Kamya
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Eaten Alive in Uganda(2023)

Horror

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Full of Energy(2004)

1h 1min | Mystery, Drama

Night is an ordinary village woman who leaves her marriage because her husband neglects her and cheats on her. Night seeks refuge with her son at her brother's home in the city. Convinced that is finished with men, Night is surprised to find herself in a steamy relationship with Juma, an energy technician who owns an Energy saving technology workshop. Night learns a lot from him. One fateful night, Sande, Night's brother is murdered. But who is the killer?

Bouncing Cats(2010)

1h 15min | Documentary

This documentary follows the efforts of Abraham "Abramz" Tekya and Breakdance Project Uganda (BPU) to use dance to empower youth in war-torn Uganda. The film is a testimony of Crazy Legs of Rock Steady Crew and his experiences in the BPU program. The film features narration by Common and additional interviews with Mos Def, will.i.am and K'Naan. Also appearing in the film is Okot Jolly Grace, whose guidance enabled the filmmakers to see and understand the plight of children in northern Uganda.

Directed by Nabil Elderkin - With Crazy Legs
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Once Upon a Time in Uganda(2023)

1h 34min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the slums of Kampala, two men from opposite sides of the world come together over a shared love for America’s greatest hero: Rambo. Against all odds, the two make their own action movies with no money — and bring joy to millions of people on the internet. Welcome to “Wakaliwood.” Through comedy and kung-fu, "Once Upon a Time in Uganda" chronicles the unlikely friendship between Isaac Nabwana, a director hailed as “Africa’s Tarantino,” and Alan Hofmanis, a film programmer from New York. While Isaac tirelessly makes feature after feature, Alan brings his films to international audiences. But tensions flare as Isaac’s star rises — threatening their partnership and all of Wakaliwood.

Attack on Nyege Nyege Island(2016)

12min | Action, Crime
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

When members of Tiger Mafia attack a music festival and against orders begin to shoot civilians the protector spirit of Nyege Nyege Island is summoned to help.

Her Broken Shadow(2023)

1h 15min | Science Fiction

In Uganda's first sci-fi film, two lonely writers struggle with their novels in different dimensions. Adongo lives in East Africa in the near future, while Apio lives on a distant planet far into the next millennium, but the pair are almost identical. When the boundary between their worlds collapses, the two women discover that each is the creation of the other — that they are both protagonists in the novel the other is striving to complete. As they scramble to understand the nature of their existence and the strange nature of their connection, reality and fantasy blur, and the women are tasked with finding a way to avoid descending into madness.

Rescue Team(2011)

1h 31min | Action
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A rescue team is on a dangerous mission into the jungle!!!!

Who Will Start Another Fire(2021)

2h 10min | Drama

An omnibus film featuring nine works by emerging filmmakers of color, Who Will Start Another Fire is the inaugural project of Dedza Films, a distribution initiative focused on showcasing underrepresented communities and the next wave of international storytellers.

TikTok(2015)

19min

Disorganized Sam wakes up almost late on the first day of his new job and must fulfill his new job guidelines in the shortest time possible.

Directed by Usama Mukwaya - With Patriq Nkakalukanyi

Tebaatusasula: Ebola(2023)

1h 42min | Action

Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.

The Thing That Happened(2011)

22min | Documentary

'The Thing That Happened' is a twenty-two-minute documentary short that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school on northern Uganda. Hope North struggles on a shoe-string budget to provide a home and an education for children displaced by the civil war between the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A.) and the Uganda People's Defense Forces (U.D.P.F.) The students are a mix of former child soldiers, orphans and the abjectly poor. Mitigating the horrific effects of the war and focusing them on their future is a monumental task.

The Future of Work and Death(2016)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

The documentary focuses on how future technology could significantly change the two inevitable features of the human experience: punching the clock and fading away. With advanced automation and artificial intelligence, the utopia of the end of human labor or the dystopia of widespread unemployment could not be a thing of science fiction. Scientists, engineers and academics all come together to share their thoughts on the future.

Directed by Sean Blacknell, Wayne Walsh

The Return Of Uncle Benon(2011)

1h 15min | Action

Gladwell becomes Madwell and has some badwell guys.

Night Terror(1989)

1h 31min | Fantasy, Horror
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A man is plagued by recurring nightmares, and when he wakes up he finds that the nightmares he just dreamed of keep coming true.

Bala Bala Sese(2015)

1h 42min

A story of boyfriend's battle for love through perseverance. In the outskirts of Sese Island, John is madly in love with Maggie and both are willing to take their love forward. Facing abuses and harassment by malicious Maggie's father Kasirivu, John, helped by his young brother Alex is determined to take in all but to retain the love of his life especially when he finds out that he has a contender village tycoon who is also lining up for Maggie.

Directed by Lukyamuzi Bashir

Kapitano(2016)

1h 32min | Action
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

New action movie from Wakaliwood.

Crazy World(2019)

1h 5min | Action, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A gang of child-snatching mobsters make a fatal mistake when they kidnap the Waka Stars, a team of pint-sized kung-fu masters who soon turn their cunning wits and deadly skills upon their captors.

The Aviatrix(2015)

1h | Adventure, Documentary

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor set out in a vintage biplane to fly that adventure again. Following Tracey as she retraces the journey, The Aviatrix is more than just a film about the rapture of flying – it’s a story about living life on your own terms and having the courage and determination to realise your greatest dreams.

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