Call Me Kuchu—but this documentary about persecution of LGBT people in Uganda is depressingly more relevant than ever.

| Jun 12, 2023

If more documentaries were filmed like Call Me Kuchu, the genre could return to its roots of educating and mobilizing viewers instead of simply entertaining them.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 28, 2020

I cannot believe anyone watching this documentary won't become emotionally enraged at how cruel mankind still is in the twenty-first century.

| Original Score: A- | May 28, 2020

Provocative and heartbreaking...

| May 28, 2020

What emerges is a compassionate, troubling, and ultimately hopeful story that is still unfolding in Uganda's streets, houses, and political corridors.

| Original Score: B+ | May 28, 2020

Heartbreak and inspiration mix as a group of Ugandans risk their lives trying to change their country's thinking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2020

A necessary, yet cinematic call for action.

| May 28, 2020

The film is well-structured and tells a compelling story of wins and losses in the fight for equality in Uganda.

| Feb 5, 2019

Wright and Worrall's film will hopefully lead to a heightened awareness of an issue that had already caught the attention of the global community, yet in a contemplative, non-sensationalist way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2019

If nothing else, Call Me Kuchu reminds that everywhere gays are challenging the hatred and making steps toward changing the situation.

| Mar 29, 2018

A moving examination of the fight for gay rights in Uganda.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 16, 2014

Call Me Kuchu leaves you flabbergasted by its portrait of the persecution of gay men and lesbians in Uganda.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2013

It's a lesson in courage, in being determined to enjoy one's life even as the authorities threaten to take it away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2013

[A] portrait of a courageous LGBT community partying, organizing, laughing and weeping as it fights for its life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2013

The film focuses on a few activists trying to advance gay rights against the head winds of a brand of Christian religion that openly advocates killing homosexuals.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 7, 2013

With this heartbreaking premise, directors Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright directed Call Me Kuchu, a revealing documentary that takes a look at how a small group of people are working hard to take Uganda out of this dark ages.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 14, 2013

The film is impassioned and powerful but not frenzied, riling the viewers' emotions without giving in to them itself.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 4, 2013

The result is an at times harrowing, heartbreaking and hopeful look at the best and worst humanity has to offer.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 24, 2013

Stirring, heartbreaking and thoroughly infuriating ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2013

A compassionate, troubling, and ultimately hopeful story that is still unfolding.

| Jul 10, 2013