God Loves Uganda - Trailer

God Loves Uganda

A film by Roger Ross Williams

83 minutes

With God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence) explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Thanks to charismatic religious leaders and a well-financed campaign, these draconian new laws and the

politicians that peddle them are winning over the Ugandan public. But these dangerous policies and the money that fuels them aren’t coming from Africa; they’re being imported from some of America’s largest megachurches.

Using vérité, interviews, and hidden camera footage, the film allows American religious leaders and their young missionaries that make up the “front lines in a battle for billions of souls” to explain their positions in their own words. Shocking and enlightening, touching and horrifying, God Loves Uganda will leave you questioning just how closely this brand of Christianity resembles the one you think you know.

“Roger Ross Williams’ forceful polemic succeeds to a startling degree, rightly decrying the use of the gospel to incite homophobia, and allowing the most fervent interviewees to damn themselves with their own proselytizing words. It’s strong, head-shaking stuff…”—Variety

“Williams is to be commended not only for his filmmaking skill, but also for pulling back the curtain on a most disturbing situation.”--The Hollywood Reporter

“A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans”--The New York Times

Official Selection SUNDANCE Film Festival

Official Selection HOT DOCS Film Festival

Official Selection FULL FRAME Film Festival