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Where to start

Festival winners, directors' picks, critics' polls and our own lists. Every film links to where you can watch it here.

Festivals and awards

Winners and nominees, year by year, starting with the Uganda Film Festival.

You May Kiss the Bride GoodbyeYMK
Longing to BelongLTB
Waka WakaWW
Maama WangeMW
AduiA
Uganda Film Festival (UCC) · 10 titles Uganda Film Festival 2026: the nomineesThe 13th Uganda Film Festival, 21–28 August 2026. UCC received 299 local submissions. These are the nominated films we could confirm.
NkinziN
KimoteK
LamaL
FatalF
At the EdgeATE
Uganda Film Festival (UCC) · 14 titles Uganda Film Festival 2025: the winnersThe 12th Uganda Film Festival's awards, film by film. Nkinzi won Best Feature Film; Kimote won seven awards.
MakulaM
The Lions of BugandaTLO
OmukuloloO
Soccer HeartSH
Christmas TogetherCT
Uganda Film Festival (UCC) · 5 titles Uganda Film Festival 2024: the winnersThe 11th Uganda Film Festival, where Nisha Kalema's Makula took Best Feature Film.

Directors' picks

Films the great directors tell people to watch.

Martin Scorsese · 17 titles Scorsese's 39 essential foreign filmsA young filmmaker asked Martin Scorsese where to start. His office sent back a list of 39 films, and it has been passed around ever since.

Critics and polls

What the critics voted for.

Sight and Sound critics' poll · 10 titles The critics' top 10 of all timeEvery ten years, Sight and Sound asks the world's critics for the greatest films ever made. In 2022, 1,639 of them voted, and for the first time a film by a woman came top.