Film And Tv

Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent

CIFF Opens Application for New Wave Programme

In 2025, Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) launched the debut edition of its New Wave, a programme for emerging filmmakers, film students, arts and media professionals, and cinephiles living in Egypt outside Cairo. It was created in response to the concentration of CIFF and most film-related opportunities in Cairo,  the heart and centre of the […]

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3 weeks ago

CIFF Opens Application for New Wave Programme

Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique Shines at the 2026 Locarno Open Doors Award

The Locarno Open Doors programme ended with notable successes for African filmmakers. A total of CHF 50,000 ($62,000), sponsored by Visions Sud Est (with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), the City of Bellinzona, and the Open Doors initiative, was awarded to three African titles and filmmakers.  The initiative’s main award […]

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4 weeks ago

Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique Shines at the 2026 Locarno Open Doors Award

African Films Win Awards at the 2026 BlackStar Film Festival

The 2026 BlackStar Film Festival concluded its 2026 edition with African filmmakers winning major awards. The festival, founded by Maori Karmael Holmes  and launched in 2012, creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working outside the confines of genre. The festival hosted over 90 titles and […]

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4 weeks ago

African Films Win Awards at the 2026 BlackStar Film Festival

BlackStar Film Festival 2026: Elson Santos and Lara Sousa’s “We, People of the Island” Centers Amilcar Cabral’s Legacy

Elson Santos and Lara Sousa’s documentary We, People of the Island opens with the peaceful and reflective rendition of Amilcar Cabral’s Ilha. Published on July 22, 1946, in the weekly newspaper A Ilha and collected in his collected works and writings of youth in Unity and Struggle, Cabral maternalized his homeland, Cape Verde, by portraying […]

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1 month ago

BlackStar Film Festival 2026: Elson Santos and Lara Sousa’s “We, People of the Island” Centers Amilcar Cabral’s Legacy

Funke Akindele Announces New Feature Film “The Four”, Set for Global Release on December 11

Nigeria’s highest-grossing filmmaker, Funke Akindele, has announced her next feature film, The Four: No One Fights Alone, set for a global cinema release on December 11, 2026. Produced by Funke Akindele Network (FAAN TV) and distributed by FilmOne Entertainment, the announcement marks the next chapter for one of Africa’s most commercially successful filmmakers, whose films  […]

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1 month ago

Funke Akindele Announces New Feature Film “The Four”, Set for Global Release on December 11

What’s the Definitive Movie about Nigeria?

In 1947, a German-Jewish sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist made the earliest argument that cinema is a mirror of its society. That critic was the revered Siegfried Kracauer, and the argument appeared in his seminal book, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Kracauer was among the first to argue […]

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1 month ago

What’s the Definitive Movie about Nigeria?
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