War Dance centres on three children – Nancy, a 13-year-old choir singer; Rose, a 14-year-old dancer; and Dominic, a 14-year-old xylophone player. They are members of the Acholi ethnic group, living in the remote northern Uganda refugee camp of Patongo, which is under military protection from the Lord’s Resistance Army, a dissident group that has been rebelling against the government for the past two decades.

In 2005, the camp’s primary school won its regional music competition and headed to Kampala to participate in the annual National Music Competition. War Dance focuses on three of the eight categories: Western choral performance, instrumental music, and traditional dance, where the students perform the Bwola, the dance of the Acholi.

Over the course of three months, the film’s creative team observes the three youngsters as they prepare for the event and gain their confidence enough to have them discuss the horrors they have experienced and express their individual fears, hopes, and dreams.

Theatre Standards is a Theatre company founded in 1995. It has since then produced & performed over twelve stage plays & 7 movies.

It has also participated in several festivals including two in Bagamoyo & Arusha in Tanzania and Bayimba International Festival of the Arts in 2015.

They return to the festival this year with a play entitled ENTALUMBWA (THE GAME)

 

‘The Walls We Built’ by Annika Rachor seeks to create a platform of international exchange and artistic expression through building up an international cooperation between Ugandan, Rwandan and German Artists, while at the same time creating a platform of exchange for people all over the world. This project is going to be an Audio-Visual Installation with an incorporation of different performing art forms. Centre of the international festival of visual arts is an installation box, in which the works from over 30 different artists dealing with the topics of walls, borders, nations and identity will be presented.

“He will turn darker than space when the mood requires it…, but come sunrise he will run his afrofunkytech till you forget the time of day….

Alongside his new production and Dj brand “Since 88”, Dark Meme (a.k.a Ken Mvvalye) has been haunting the most notorious and unimaginable dance floors across the globe…. Involved with pioneer electro sound system in Kampala, the “Groot man” has been involved in a string of productions, labels and events which include The Social, Sip ‘n Dip and more just to mention a few, with the goal of promoting dance /club music while maintaining to the Afro roots of the motherland

As he continues on his musical journey opening and sharing the stage with global afro house & EDM giants such as Diplo, Floydd Lavine, Enoo Napa, Stones & Bones and others, he will be releasing his solo EP “MBALE’ inspired by his home town this September 2019…”