Oscars: Uganda Selects 'Kony: Order from Above' for International Feature Category

The film marks Uganda's first ever entry in the best international feature Oscar race.

for the international feature category at the 2020 Academy Awards, making the first ever submissions to the Oscars.tells a story of two teenagers, Otti and Aguti, who fall in love during the tumultuous Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in North Uganda.

Years later, Otti and Aguti meet again. By then, Otti has become LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony's favorite and most trusted soldier. Kony marries Aguti and tasks Otti with handling her security, and the latter is torn between loyalty to the rebel cause and his old love.

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