It all started with a few batterted brass instruments in a primary school in Ugandas capital Kampala. “Get the kids from the streets” was the motto of social workers Micheal Mwase and Geoffrey Tumusiime – and with music they could inspire and motivate. Today, 12 years later, Rainbow House of Hope with its brass band and its varied activities are a permanent institution in Kampalas district Nsambya. For many children and youth from the neighborhood “Rainbow” is their second home. The filmmakers get close to Nsambya’s people and their stories without intruding or the use of chilchés. With a authentic and honest narrative they give exciting insight of their protagonists lives.

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River is a lyrical evocation of those life-changing friendships of youth – passionate, all consuming and sometimes, as brief as summer. Stan and Roz live in a small city a long way away from anywhere. Stan has just finished university and is making progress on a novel. Roz toils away at a dead-end job and roam the city with her camera. When Stan and Roz meet, they help to nurture each other’s artistic dreams and they discover what is possible – in friendship and in themselves.

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An introverted loner has his worst nightmares come true when he forms a relationship with a girl to whom he becomes obsessed. An anti-romance evolves as each learns more about their private individual selves and each other. LTD challenges the convention and narrative structure of ordinary filmmaking, presenting a seemingly straight forward plot, turning the story upside down, and ending with an unexpected surprise.

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The coming-of-age story of Marjorie Ely, a beautiful 19-year-old girl possessed by only an abstracted sense of who she is or where she came from. Now alone and living with distant relatives, she imagines that she was born motherless, created through extraordinary, magical means by her mysterious and long-dead father as the daughter that he never had. As time goes on, she becomes further lost to the ordinary world around her, a banal one of gossipy girlfriends, lonely afternoons, routine jobs and awkward sexual awakenings. But a separate, nocturnal reality emerges and soon takes hold, sending forth a young, handsome and unearthly figure in a black leather jacket to reclaim her – drawing her back to her perceived origins, to where her father and fate await her.

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