Festivals & Awards
2026
Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR)
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Partner: AG Kurzfilm
Director:
Marion Desmaret
Filmmaker's profile
Forget The Director, This is Emmy’s Cut! is an experimental short about VJ Emmy, Uganda’s legendary “Video Joker.” Blending vérité and fiction, the film explores the art of live narration, where local performers remix foreign films through a wild, irreverent, and subversive Luganda commentary.
Duration: 11min.
Country: Germany, Uganda
Language: English
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Other
Topic: Action, African, Art, Biography, Black Humor, Black Identity, Cinema, Community, Documentary, Dream, Education, Every Day Life, Experimental, Freedom, Happiness, Humor, Identity, Inspiration, Media, Politics, Resistance, Social, Society, Tradition, Western, Women
Director: Marion Desmaret
Production company: Marion Desmaret
Writer: Marion Desmaret, Emmy Batte
Cinematographer: Ian Nnyanzi
Editor: Marion Desmaret
Actors: Emmy Batte aka VJ Emmy
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