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Fight Like A Girl - UK premiere - UGS
Fri 22 May
|Genesis Cinema
Join us for the UK premiere of 'Fight Like A Girl' at Genesis Cinema. A young Congolese woman, forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors. She finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma. Followed by an in-person Q&A.
Time & Location
22 May 2026, 18:00 – 21:00
Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4UJ, UK
About the event
Join us for the UK premiere of 'Fight Like A Girl' at Genesis Cinema. A young Congolese woman, forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors. She finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma. Followed by an in-person Q&A.
SYNOPSIS
Fight Like A Girl
Based on a true story.
Safi, 19, has been kidnapped from her village by a rebel group and forced to work in an illegal mineral mine. But after two years, she makes a harrowing escape from her captors, and treks for six days through the east Congolese jungle, to the border city of Goma in search of a new life.
Safi finds herself living on the unfriendly streets of Goma selling sambaza for a local fisherman. One night after deftly fending off an attacker with a ferocious punch, she catches the eye of the legendary boxing champ who takes her under his wing and brings her into his club where he is teaching a ragtag group of female boxers.
Seeing fighting as a way to get out of the poverty and violence that grips her country, she signs up for the team… but soon discovers that there is more to boxing than being able to throw a powerful punch…
… and maybe there is more to life than simply surviving.
A KG28 MEDIA production
In association with Africa Creative Agency
and Ouenze Entertainment and PlasTechFree Products.
Fight Like A Girl
Ama Qamata
Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Malaika Uwamahoro
Arthur Nkusi
Bahali Ruth
Kennedy Mazimpaka
Introducing
Clarck Ntambwe
Composer
Coby Brown
Costume Designer
Sissi Ngamije
Editor
Matthew Leutwyler
Co-Producers
Ama Qamata • Clarisse Umutoniwase
Production Designers
Omar Mouktar Sibomana • Antoine Nshimiyamana
Director of Photography
Richard Henkels
Executive Producers
Serge Ibaka • Jordi Vilà Sánchez
• Colin Gayle • David Quinney
Executive Producers
Adrian Colbert • Kent Spence • Rebecca White
Producers
Innocent Munyeshuri • Yvette Gayle
Produced by
Anton Laines
Written & Directed by
Matthew Leutwyler