Amelia Umuhire (born 1991) is a Rwandan-German film director, producer, and screenwriter.
In 2015 she directed the web series Polyglot where she cast her sister Amanda Mukasonga as the main character of the three episodic short films which were uploaded on YouTube in 2015.
Her short film "Mugabo" (2017) was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the Blackstar Film Festival where it won Best Experimental Film, Berlin Biennale, MCA Chicago, MOCA Los Angeles as part of the Black Radical Imagination Showcase curated by Darol Kae and Jheanelle Brown.In 2018, she directed a commissioned video used as a performance piece for the twentieth-anniversary tour of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
In 2018 she wrote, directed and recorded the audio piece "Vaterland" which was nominated for the Prix Europa.
She is a laureate of the Villa Romana Award, the oldest German art prize.