Amelia Umuhire

born 1991 in Kigali, RW, lives and works in Berlin
Villa Romana Fellow 2020

Awards

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)

Workshops und grants

2018
Electric South, Virtual Reality Lab, Kapstadt

2017
IDFA Bertha Fund - Entwicklungsfonds for Topsoil - documentary film in progress, NL
Tuko-Life in Goma, webseries, workshop for Goethe Institut Kinshasa and Kigali

Mugabo, 2016, videostill, courtesy Amelia Umuhire

King Who, 2019, videostill

Vaterland, 2018, radio play, courtesy Amelia Umuhire

Films, web series and audio plays

2018
Final Hour, 4 ’, visuals for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 20th Anniversary Tour

2018
Vaterland, 54 ’, audio play, RW, DE, BE, writer, director, comissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur /Radiokunst

2016
Mugabo, 7 ’, experimental film, RW, writer, director, producer

2015
Polyglot, web series, 3 episodes, DE, UK, writer, director, producer, publisher


Solo Exhibitions

2019
AMELIA UMUHIRE: FKBP5, Decad Berlin


Screenings

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

2018
Black Radical Imagination, Ann Arbor Film Festival, US (Mugabo)
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, US (Mugabo)
Off Courts Festival Trouville, FR (Mugabo)
Fyre Art Museum, Seattle, US (Mugabo)
MCA Chicago Project Row Houses, US (Mugabo)
10. Berlin Biennale (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, London (Mugabo)
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, US (Polyglot)
Branly Musée du Quai, Paris (Polyglot)

2015
Geneva International Film Festival, CH (Polyglot)
Festival D’Angers, FR (Polyglot)
Webfest Berlin (Polyglot)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Polyglot)
Film Africa, The British Library, London (Polyglot)