What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
5 days ago
My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
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Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]
12 months ago
Renewing classical dramas, solving the industry’s distribution issue and creating a development infrastructure were listed as what the Authority will be doing.
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Hugo Salvaterra’s My Semba premiered at the 2026 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Watching My Semba recalls the divisive conversations held at the recently concluded 76th Berlin International Film Festival about silence and activism in cinema. The festival jury President, Wim Wenders, and others suggested that filmmakers and the festival should “stay […]
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The lab which will begin receiving applications from 5th March, 2026 is designed to instill the culture of script and idea development and workshop in Nigeria.
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In Uganda, Video Jokering (often referred to as VJing) is a unique and culturally significant form of film commentary and translation. A Video Joker (VJ) is a narrator and guide whose content style is to run commentary over a movie, usually a foreign blockbuster, to translate the dialogue into local languages (primarily Luganda) and add comedic or social commentary.
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Burkina Faso’s Burkinabè Film and Audiovisual Agency (ABCA) has officially launched the next edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), scheduled for February 27–March 6, 2027. Founded in 1969, FESPACO is Africa’s largest and oldest film festival. The Pan-African festival, which takes place every two years in the capital city of […]
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The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) and Cinematheque Suisse, and Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art Berlin, has signed a historic memorandum of understanding to fully digitize Adamu Halilu’s Kulba Na Barna, one of Nigeria’s vintage films shot on 35mm format in 1992. This agreement is coming after the 2018 successful restoration as well as […]
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Marché du Film, also known as Cannes Film Market has announced Lagos as one of its partnering cities for the 2026 edition of the Goes to Cannes program taking place from May 15 to 18th 2026, at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) will represent Lagos in the showcase. The […]
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Financial institutions often require tangible collateral, leaving intellectual property, already vulnerable to piracy, undervalued as an asset. Compounding this challenge is a knowledge gap.
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