This Film Review Park was opened during the Era of Natasha's Father to celebrate the Cinema of Uganda. As a Dreamer, Cartoonist and Wikipedia Guest Editor (since 2012), I believe every Flick has a watchable Story to tell; am not a Tomatometer Critic but an O(m)bangulu/ Luwombo (Mix) Film Fan because I respect every Filmmaker's unique Vision. Mira Nair's Maisha Film Laboratory taught me that "If we don't tell our Stories, noone else will." Contact: aikoug@gmail.com! Lights, Camera, Action...
16 June 2019
iMANi (2009 film)
This multi-award-winning 79-minute Ugandan film by Caroline Kamya vibrantly captures three vignettes
of life in modern day Uganda: A child soldier returns to the parents who could
not protect him, a woman fights to get her wrongly accused sister out of jail
and a youth dance troop leader struggles to simply get through a hometown
performance.
Caroline Kamya
These seemingly desperate stories slowly fuse into a profound
singular narrative as the characters reveal themselves to be uniformly off
balance in their own lives and the world around them. iMANi is an intimate
exploration of characters who will likely remain far from resolution for some
time to come...