Uganda Film Festival

The Uganda Film Festival is run by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). Every year it screens and awards the country’s films and TV dramas, in Kampala’s cinemas, for one week. Then most of those films are hard to find again.

This hub is the record: every film we can confirm from the published nominee and winner lists, with its awards. When a film can be watched somewhere, we say where.

Made one of these films, or know where it’s showing? Tell us and we’ll add it.

The festival by year

• 2026 nominees. The 13th festival ran 21–28 August 2026 under the theme “Transformation: The Power of Local Stories”. Andrew Benon Kibuuka received the Lifetime Achievement Award. We’re adding the full list of 2026 winners.
• 2025 winners. Nkinzi won Best Feature Film; Kimote took seven awards.
• 2024 winners. Makula won Best Feature Film.

Earlier years are coming.