Film And Tv

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

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 […]

Seyi Lasisi

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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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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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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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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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What’s the Definitive Movie about Nigeria?

BlackStar Film Festival 2026: In “Authors of the Estate,” Abdou Cissé Captures the Power of a Community Shaping its Own Narrative

What makes Authors of the Estate resonate beyond its immediate subject is that it isn’t simply a documentary about a book project. It is a case study in what becomes possible when marginalised communities made up of working-class, often non-white, historically written about rather than writing, are given the means to author their own narratives, on their own terms, without translation or permission.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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BlackStar Film Festival 2026: In “Authors of the Estate,” Abdou Cissé Captures the Power of a Community Shaping its Own Narrative

Five African Films Selected for TIFF 2026 Centrepiece Line-Up

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has unveiled the 54 films selected for its 2026 Centrepiece programme, with five African productions and co-productions earning places in one of the festival’s flagship sections. The selection marks one of the continent’s strongest representations in recent editions of the festival and raises the possibility of an African film […]

Anjola Akinmade

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Five African Films Selected for TIFF 2026 Centrepiece Line-Up
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