Amelia Umuhire

nata nel 1991 a Kigali, in Ruanda, vive e lavora a Berlino
Vincitrice del Premio Villa Romana 2020

Premi

Best Experimental Film, Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, US (Mugabo)
Best German Web Series 2015, Webfest Berlin (Polyglot)
Best International Web Series 2015, Festival D’Angers, Geneva, CH (Polyglot)


Workshop e borse di studio

2018
Electric South, Virtual Reality Lab, Kapstadt

2017
IDFA Bertha Fund - Entwicklungsfonds per Topsoil - documentario in Torso, NL
Tuko-Life in Goma, serie web, workshop per Goethe Institut Kinshasa e Kigali

Mugabo, 2016, videostill, courtesy Amelia Umuhire

King Who, 2019, videostill

Vaterland, 2018, riproduzione radiofonica, courtesy Amelia Umuhire

Film, serie web, programmi radiofonici

2018
Final Hour, 4 ’, Visual per The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 20th Anniversary Tour

2018
Vaterland, 54 ’, dramma radiofonico, RW, DE, BE, commissionato da Deutschlandfunk Kultur /Radiokunst

2016
Mugabo, 7 ’, film sperimentale, RW, autore, regista, produttore

2015
Polyglot, serie web, 3 episodi, DE, UK, autore, regista, editore, produttore


Mostre individuali

2019
AMELIA UMUHIRE: FKBP5, Decad Berlin, Berlino


Screenings

2019
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US (Mugabo)
Contour Biennale, Mechelen, BE (Mugabo)
BFI Film Institute, Londra (Polyglot)

2018
Black Radical Imagination, Ann Arbor Film Festival, US (Mugabo)
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC (Mugabo)
Off Courts Festival Trouville, FR (Mugabo)
Fyre Art Museum, Seattle, US (Mugabo)
MCA Chicago Project Row Houses, Chicago, US (Mugabo)
10. Berlin Biennale, Berlino (Mugabo)

2017
Blackstar Film Festival, Philadelphia (Mugabo)
Kongo International Film Festival, Goma, CG (Mugabo)
Uppsala Short Film Festival, SE (Mugabo)
Africa in Motion Festival, Edinburgh, UK (Mugabo)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL (Mugabo)

2016
Film Africa, British Library, Londra (Mugabo)
Tribeca Film Festival, New York (Polyglot)
Branly Musée du Quai, Parigi (Polyglot)

2015
Geneva International Film Festival, CH (Polyglot)
Festival D’Angers, FR (Polyglot)
Webfest Berlino (Polyglot)
Victoria und Albert Museum, Londra (Polyglot)
Film Africa, The British Library, Londra (Polyglot)