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Forget the Director, This is Emmy’s Cut!

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.

Details

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

Cast & Crew

Director: Marion Desmaret

Production company: Marion Desmaret

Writer: Marion Desmaret, Emmy Batte

Cinematographer: Ian Nnyanzi

Editor: Marion Desmaret

Actors: Emmy Batte aka VJ Emmy

Festivals & Awards

2026

Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR)

Concorto Film Festival Concorto Film Festival Special Mention

Lago Film Fest

Slash Filmfestival

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