Call Me Kuchu
[A] shocking, moving, enthralling and enraging doc.
Call Me Kuchu
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists as they work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, are prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to the its core and sends shock waves around the world. CALL ME KUCHU depicts the last year in the life of a courageous, quick-witted and steadfast man whose wisdom and achievements were not fully recognized until after his death, and whose memory has inspired a new generation of human rights advocates.
Genre
Documentary,
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
87
Language
English,
Luganda
Director
Katherine Fairfax Wright,
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
FEATURED REVIEW
Rachel Cooke, Observer [UK]
This is a documentary about the veteran Ugandan gay-rights activist David Kato (in Uganda, gay men and women are known as "kuchus"). One year into filming Kato's struggle to fight the efforts of Ugandan politicians to introduce some of the most repressive anti-homosexual legislation the world has ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 6.21.13 - 6.27.13
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