Former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi’s documentary “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” has been nominated to compete for Cinema Eye Honor’s ‘Audience Choice’ award.
In the documentary, Bobi Wine risks his life and the lives of his wife, Barbie, and their children to fight President Museveni’s regime. Mr Museveni has been in power since 1986 and changed Uganda’s constitution to enable him to run for yet another five-year term.
Running in the country’s 2021 presidential elections, Bobi Wine uses his music to denounce the dictatorial regime and support his life mission to defend the oppressed and the voiceless people of Uganda.
In his fight, he must also take on the country’s police and military, which are not afraid to use violence and torture in a vain attempt to intimidate and silence him and his supporters.
The National Unity Platform (NUP) principal’s documentary was nominated alongside 12 other movies. Below is the list of movies under the ‘Audience Choice’ award category.
20 Days in Mariupol
Directed by Mstyslav Chernov
32 Sounds
Directed by Sam Green
American Symphony
Directed by Matthew Heineman
Beyond Utopia
Directed by Madeleine Gavin
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Directed by Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp
A Compassionate Spy
Directed by Steve James
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Directed by Penny Lane
The Deepest Breath
Directed by Laura McGann
The Eternal Memory
Directed by Maite Alberdi
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Directed by Lisa Cortés
Invisible Beauty
Directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O’Boyle
Kokomo City
Directed by D. Smith
The Mission
Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
The Pigeon Tunnel
Directed by Errol Morris
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Directed by Anna Hints
Stamped From the Beginning
Directed by Roger Ross Williams
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Directed by Peter Nicks
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
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