Mona Okulla Obua

Mona Okulla Obua is a German-Ugandan director, poet and visual artist. She graduated from Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in 2017. Topics of her work are diasporic identities, the filmic decolonization of black and biracial bodies, nature, spirituality and afro-surrealism. She explores the medium of film through an experimental lens, implementing poetry in images and words. Her work has been shown at film festivals and cultural institutions in different parts of the world, like Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin, New York Tri-State, Film Africa London or KLA Art Kampala. Her most recent short film INDIGO centers the experience of black German womxn in front and behind the camera. The short film was made by a group of black & brown filmmakers, mothers and female-identifying individuals in all key positions. INDIGO won the Special Prize at the International Short Film Festival, Berlin and the 2nd Place at Monologues & Poetry International Film Fest, USA in 2023. She recently relocated to Kampala where she participated in the KLA ART ’24 residency resulting in her first installation YAO, an immersive video installation rooted in a personal take on Lango ancestry. YAO invites visitors to reflect on concepts of womanhood, resilience and community