Your AI assistant is here to roast you into oblivion. Uganda's tech scene just got personal.
As Mark attempts to get over Malaika. He acquires the latest innovation inartificial intelligence Uganda has to offer to help him through the post break up blues but he’s in for a wild ride. Karen is a highly intelligent and adaptive assistant with multiple Ugandan dialects and she is not on his side. Mark does not get the solace he seeks rather a constant train of blatant disrespect and roasting from a robot the size of his fist.
Writing
Karen's roast dialogue hits harder than most feature-length comedies.
Acting
Triple-voice performance makes one robot feel like three distinct enemies.
Production
Ugandan indie sci-fi proving massive budgets are optional for big laughs.
Director
Alisanyukirwa Joy Matovu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This micro-short represents a wave of Ugandan indie filmmakers using accessible tech to satirize global AI narratives—Karen's multilingual roasting specifically subverts the polite assistant trope of Western tech.
Director Alisanyukirwa Joy Matovu also plays the Handsome Delivery Guy, making this perhaps cinema's only instance where a filmmaker casts herself as the romantic rival to her own protagonist's ex.
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