For more than 50 years, the music of the kingdom of Buganda has been forgotten and faded from memory. Through the intimate portrait of the last royal musicians, BUGANDA ROYAL MUSIC REVIVAL launches us on a journey to discover the sounds and the stories which make this music making once the glory of a kingdom. Exploring an oral tradition dating back more than 700 years and its agony, the film asks a universal question: what trace do we leave?

A film by Jules & Basile KOECHLIN

Uganda / Switzerland, 2020, Documentary, 1h02, Original version with French subtitles

Duration: 62 mn
Original version with French subtitles

DIRECTORS
Jules Koechlin, Basile Koechlin

SCREENWRITERS
Jules Koechlin, Basile Koechlin

SOUND
Basil Koechlin

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jules Koechlin

EDITING
Florian Gallego, Baptiste Dussert

PRODUCTION
Short Fusion (Switzerland)

CONTACT
Fusion Shorts,
info (@) shortfusion.ch


FESTIVALS / AWARDS
2020 - Solothurn, 55. Solothurner Filmtage (Switzerland) /
2020 - "Best Sound-track" The African Film Festival, Dallas (USA)
2020 - Festival del Film Ethno-musicologicale, Florence (Italy)
2021 - Watch Africa CYMRU, Cardiff (UK)
2021 - STLOUIS'DOCS (Senegal)

SELECTION ☰ STLOUIS'DOCS2021 - 12th international documentary film festival of Saint-Louis (Senegal | December 14-18, 2021)
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