Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ouganda,USA, 2024
SYNOPSIS
On April 24th, 2002 filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for his car to be repaired he stumbled upon a small photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950’s up till 2006 when he passed away.
This chance encounter turned into a 22 year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate’s life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare’s life and the lives of the entire community he documented.
BIOFILMOGRAPHIE
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s first short film “Kuhani,” won the main prize for Best Achievement in Directing at the International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, the Best International Short prize at the LesGaiCineMad, Madrid International LGBT Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Slamdance in 2014. Ntare’s first feature documentary “Beware of Time” won the Best Film at the Berlin Black International Cinema Festival in 2004.