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DOUBLE SCREENING: 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

Super excited about another double screening at an African festival! This October, two of our films are screening at @kilificreekfestival in Kenya!

@thewomanwhopokedtheleopard directed by @nitumwesiga produced by @rosiemotene @impishphil @natalika_berlin @nziman and starring @stellanyanzi and her family. Some of our team members will be present to talk about the process of making the film.

JANGU #jangu directed by @nitumwesiga and produced by @shagikatales in co-production with @stoneagepictures represented by @ali.musoke , starring @taniakankindi @kababiito_ @guythatjairus @julie_guily

Come find us at this dreamy festival on the coast!

@mygandre @kristenvanschie taken in Kilifi, Kenya by @nitumwesiga

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7 days ago

Incredibly grateful to the @herdocs team for hosting me in Warsaw and showing our film @thewomanwhopokedtheleopard to such a beautiful audience.

It was an honor to hear people say how grateful they are to the festival for bringing them a film made by an African filmmaker after all the propaganda they’re treated to about our part of the world.
And even more wonderful to connect with not only Polish people but with cool people from Belarus, Ukraine and the region.

How totally unexpected to hear people say that @stellanyanzi speaks to them and the liberation struggles in their countries, so far from home.

Thank you so much for this gift. I’ll never forget it.
And thank you to the guest experience team who received us and made our stay so memorable.
Thank you @impishphil for the photos and the company. taken in Warsaw, Poland by @nitumwesiga

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11 days ago

UK PREMIERE

THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD

We’re heading to Edinburgh!

THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD will have its UK Premiere at @jalicollective presented in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute.

Thursday, 29 October 2026
20:30–22:30
Filmhouse Edinburgh
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9BZ

We’re deeply grateful to have the film presented in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute, with support from @screenscots and @filmhubscotland

A film about courage, resistance, and the price of speaking truth to power.

Edinburgh, we’ll see you there.

#TheWomanWhoPokedTheLeopard #JALICollective #ScottishDocumentaryInstitute #ScreenScotland #FilmHubScotland by @nitumwesiga

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12 days ago

Programme Highlight ✨ THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD (dir. @nitumwesiga)

Thur 29 Oct, 20:30 @filmhouse_edinburgh

Unapologetic and revolutionary — THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD is an intimate portrait of Ugandan poet-academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi (@stellanyanzi), who defies state repression with bold acts of resistance.

Through performance and protest, Stella confronts dictatorship and patriarchy. She navigates threats, imprisonment, and exile to reclaim autonomy both for her nation and her own family.

Link to tickets in bio.

Presented in partnership with @scottishdocinstitute.

With support from @screenscots & @filmhubscotland.

#JaliFilmWeekender by @nitumwesiga

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Um futuro distante. Uma identidade em risco. Uma história que nos obriga a olhar duas vezes.

Em “How to Forget Your Name: The Last Barbarian”, uma jovem imigrante da África Negra tenta sobreviver numa realidade futura marcada pelo ultranacionalismo e pela exclusão.

Uma narrativa provocadora que nos leva a questionar identidade, pertença e o preço de um futuro que promete ser luminoso.

Conheça esta curta na Competição KAFUKA 2026.

#curtasficção #competition #KAFUKA2026 #filmfestival2026 by @nitumwesiga

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What would happen if all the men in town disappeared for three hours? In “Jangu”, director @nitumwesiga follows two sisters whose encounter with a witch grants them exactly that wish. But when they ask for more, what seemed like an escape takes an unexpected turn.

→ From the Open Doors Screenings 2025 to Locarno SHORTS. Watch “Jangu” for free on our website until November 1 [link in bio]

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@taniakankindi @kababiito_ by @nitumwesiga

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🏆 **AFFK 2026 AWARD CEREMONY ❤️**

One last look back at a very special moment: our award ceremony at the 23rd Afrika Film Festival Köln.

Congratulations once again to our incredible winners:

🏆 **Jury Prize**
THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD

🏆 **Audience Award – Best Documentary**
THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD

🏆 **Diversity Film Prize**
MEU SEMBA

🏆 **Audience Award – Best Short Film**
HOW TO HIDE IT

🏆 **Audience Award – Best Feature Film**
BLACK BURNS FAST

Congratulations to all the filmmakers, protagonists and teams behind these films – and thank you for sharing your stories with us. ❤️

**These moments. These films. These people. This is AFFK.**

📸 Impressions from our AFFK 2026 Award Ceremony.
Copyright: @carlosteestudio

#AFFK2026 #AfrikaFilmFestivalKöln #AwardCeremony #AfricanCinema #AfricanFilm taken in Filmforum NRW by @nitumwesiga

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We’re coming to Kenya y’all!!!

This East African premiere is one of our most exciting premieres for our film @thewomanwhopokedtheleopard

As an Ugandan filmmaker without so much support, our director @nitumwesiga perhaps received her biggest support from Kenya. From our first funder @docubox_eadff to our team members in post production and to all the wonderful Kenyan filmmakers who showed up for our team, Kenya is special to us.

Not to mention the comrades who provided security support and impromptu hospitality whenever needed.

We are so proud to be premiering at @nbofilmfest this October! For the screening at Alliance Française, there will be a Q&A including our protagonist Stella Nyanzi @stellanyanzi and director Patience Nitumwesiga among other members of the team.

We invite Ugandans who are attending NBO to come join us and let’s talk and celebrate East African cinema.

We can’t wait to see you all! taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @nitumwesiga

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16 days ago

Danke Köln. ❤️

I come back from sick leave with overwhelming gratitude.

To Sebastian and the entire AFFK team — you are absolute legends. Thank you for the unprecedented African hospitality, for taking such good care of us.

To the city of Köln — thank you for loving us in such strange and beautiful ways. Every screening sold out. Every audience hungry for our work. What a gift.

To the filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora — thank you for the embrace. It was an honour to commune with so many artists I deeply respect.

To my incredible team — we did it. A film that seemed to move Köln. I’m told it’s the first time the Jury and the Audience have awarded the same film in the festival’s history.

But my biggest honour was hearing audiences stay after and ask me to tell @stellanyanzi they are so lucky to live in the same world as her. That they are glad she exists. Raw and human and breathing.

Thank you, Jury, for seeing everything we worked so hard to preserve. What an honor to be awarded by you.

What a beautiful omen to return to after months of not being well.

📷 @jorge__cohen taken in Köln, Germany by @nitumwesiga

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18 days ago

The Woman Who Poked The Leopard

É com entusiasmo que apresentamos a primeira obra em destaque na nossa Secção Competitiva de Longas Documentários: The Woman Who Poked The Leopard, da realizadora ugandesa Patience Nitumwesiga!

Preparem-se para uma viagem cinematográfica absolutamente arrebatadora. Este documentário é daquelas obras raras que nos agarram desde o primeiro momento, mergulhando-nos nas profundezas de narrativas complexas, corajosas e profundamente humanas. Através do olhar singular e sensível de Patience Nitumwesiga, o filme desafia-nos a olhar de frente para as dinâmicas de poder, a resiliência e a busca implacável pela verdade, provando a força colossal do cinema documental feito no continente africano.

É uma honra imensa receber esta obra no nosso festival e celebrar o talento desta realizadora e a força esmagadora da sua personagem, Dra. Dr. Stella Nyanzi.
Não perca a oportunidade de vivenciar esta estreia marcante e de se deixar envolver pela magia do cinema que nos transforma!

#longasdocumentários #competition #KAFUKA2026 #filmfestival2026 by @nitumwesiga

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20 days ago

So happy to be a part of the phenomenal film program by the @jalicollective icollective at The Jali Film Weekender, a five-day celebration of Black, African and diaspora film, extended realities and more at multiple venues across Edinburgh.

This year’s programme theme is Rebellion, which manifests across both cinematic forms and narratives told, as well as who audiences will be introduced to both on and off screen.

We are especially happy to be a part of this program celebrating rebellion because the film showcases how Dr. Stella Nyanzi defies state repression with rebellious acts of resistance.

📅 Thursday 29 October 2026
⌚ 20:30 22:30
📍 Filmhouse Edinburgh, 88 Lothian RoadEdinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9BZUnited Kingdom

Book tickets now!

#TheWomanWhoPokedTheLeopard #DocumentaryFilm #AfricanCinema #UgandanFilm by @nitumwesiga

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25 days ago

We’re finally coming to EAST AFRICA! We are thrilled to announce that The Woman Who Poked The Leopard will be having its East African Premiere as an official competition selection at the NBO Film Festival!

The screening dates shall be announced in a few days to come so please prepare to come see the film. It is a special moment for our director @nitumwesiga and our producers @nziman @rosiemotene @impishphil @natalika_berlin to bring the film so close to home!

It means a lot to have audiences at home experience this immersive portrait of the fierce, feminist icon @stellanyanzi.

Get notified when the tickets are live at the @nbofilmfest #linkinbio.

#TheWomanWhoPokedTheLeopard #DocumentaryFilm #AfricanCinema #UgandanFilm by @nitumwesiga

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