A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 30 nominations
Taryn Kyaze
- Night
- (as Taryn "Kay" Kyaze)
Esteri Tebandeke
- Sara Katende
- (as Esther Tebandeke)
Minky Ndlovu
- Man on Boda
- (as Nhlahla "Minkey" Ndlovu)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Mira Nair decided to adapt "Queen of Katwe" into a film after making a documentary about the life of the man who trained Phiona Mutesi, Robert Katende.
- GoofsAll the end games of chess shown, but one, are a checkmate, something which hardly ever happens once players have acquired some experience. The one exception is when Phiona resigns a game which is treated as a personal crisis, when in fact it's normal to resign from hopeless positions - especially when playing with the black pieces, for this brings the disadvantage of not making the first move.
Never seen in the movie are any games ending with a draw, which in chess is extremely common.
- Quotes
Robert Katende: [Robert speaking to Phiona] Sometimes the place you are use to... is not the place where you belong
- Crazy creditsJust before the credits, there are short scenes of the major characters with the real people they portrayed. A brief synopsis of what the real people have done since the events of the film and are doing at the time of the film's completion is displayed as well.
- SoundtracksNdi Muna Uganda
Written by Bobi Wine
Performed by Bobi Wine feat. Nubian Lee
Courtesy of Fire Base Records
Featured review
Strong depiction of urban slums
Mira Nair returns to Uganda once again, three decades after she made Mississipi Masala. This is a much better film. While Mississipi Masala centered around an upper middle class Indian-Ugandan family, Queen of Katwe is set in the slums of Uganda. Nair doesn't attempt to go easy on the slum visuals here. The filth and squalor are in your face here, from beginning to end. I haven't seen a film depicting poverty in this way for a long time. Even Slumdog Millionaire wasn't so strong. Otherwise Queen of Kawate is a fairly predictable story of an under-privileged girl rising to success against the odds. The medium of her rise is chess. She's the pawn who turns into a queen, as sometimes happens in chess. The performances are uniformly good, especially given that most of them are child actors (Mira Nair's first film was Salaam Bombay and she is pretty good at handling children). I found the end credits rather moving, where the real characters pose with the actors who played them on screen. All in all a very warm, watchable film.
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- Oct 10, 2016
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Nữ Hoàng Cờ Vua
- Filming locations
- Kampala, Uganda(Slums of Katwe)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,874,389
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $304,933
- Sep 25, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $10,368,126
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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