The Queer Kampala International Film Festival, taking place in Uganda’s capital from Dec. 9-11, 2016, will host a satellite film screening in Toronto in partnership with Xtra. The Toronto satellite screening of the festival will show solidarity with and raise money for a courageous group of people organizing the first ever LGBT film festival in Uganda. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Queer Kampala International Film Festival.

Outed, the film which will be screened, is a raw and unflinching dramatization of state violence directed towards LGBT people in Uganda. Filmmaker Kamoga Hassan will be in attendance to take questions after the film via Skype.

Following the screening, Xtra will host a conversation on the importance of reflecting queer lives on screen in an era of profound political uncertainty, most directly in Uganda, but increasingly in countries where LGBT rights have been won in past decades.