In the hospital the doctors have no pain medication, but Harriet agrees to Brian being stitched up.Brian is unconscious and has to be carried on the bike. Phiona has to pay a motorbike rider to help her take him to hospital. The scene where Brian is hit by a motorbike is quite distressing.
Her slum is full of dirt, rubble, dilapidated buildings and shacks. Many scenes show the slum conditions that Phiona lives in.In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, there are some scenes in Queen of Katwe that might worry some children in this age group. Harriet hits Night because she leaves Richard alone and he nearly drowns in a flash flood.Brian is standing in the road when he’s suddenly hit by a motorbike, which knocks him unconscious.Harriet grabs Phiona and Brian by their ears and marches them out of the room.She eventually hits back at them when they spit at her and snort at her, calling her a pig. The children all tease Phiona when she first comes to the chess club because she smells.She warns him to leave her daughter alone or she’ll hurt him. Harriet kicks out at Night’s boyfriend Theo (Maurice Kirya) because she knows he’ll use Night as a prostitute.Poverty and hardship prejudice prostitution loss of a parent Violence She’s able to return to school with much support from the Church. She also wins Africa’s International Children’s Chess Tournament in 2009 with teammates Ivan (Ronald Ssemaganda) and Benjamin (Ethan Nazario Lubega). She goes on to be a successful chess player, winning the Ugandan Women’s Junior Championship when she’s only 11. Robert soon realises that Phiona is a chess prodigy and encourages her to enter tournaments, against her mother’s judgment. Their teacher is Robert Katende (David Oyelowo), a former footballer and engineer, who has taken a position as a sports missionary to help these disadvantaged children. One day she follows her brother Brian to the Sports Ministry Outreach Church, where she watches him and several other children learning to play chess. Phiona helps her mother sell vegetables every day at the market. She lives an impoverished life with her widowed mother, Harriet (Lupita Nyong’o), her older sister, Night (Taryn Kyaze), and her two brothers, Brian (Martin Kabanza) and Richard (Ivan Jacobo). Queen of Katwe is based on a true story about a young girl, Phiona Matesi (Madina Nalwanga), who comes from the slums of Kampala in Uganda.