Film & TV
FESPACO Unveils 2025 Official Selection
The 29th edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) has unveiled her official selection ahead of the event that is scheduled for 22nd February – 1st March in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The selection captures a total 235 films shortlisted from 1,351 submissions, all of which represent 48 countries and reflect the […]
The 29th edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) has unveiled her official selection ahead of the event that is scheduled for 22nd February – 1st March in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The selection captures a total 235 films shortlisted from 1,351 submissions, all of which represent 48 countries and reflect the beauty and diversity of African and diaspora cinemas. The lineup includes 17 features vying for the Étalon de Yennenga (the festival’s top prize), 15 feature documentaries, 34 shorts, 14 series, 18 animations, among other categories.
Represented in the feature fiction category are titles such as Babatunde Apalowo’s All The Colours of The World Are Between Black and White (Nigeria), Nabil Ayouch’s Everybody Loves Touda (Morocco), Denise Fernandes’s Hanami (Cape Verde), Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (Zambia), Mo Harawe ’s The Village Next To Paradise (Somalia) and Karim Moussaoui’s L’effacement (Algeria).
The shorts in competition, a combination of fiction and documentary, include Onyeka Igwe’s A Radical Duet (Nigeria), Sherif El Bendary’s Better Than Earth (Egypt), Morad Mostafa’s I Promise You Paradise (Egypt), Alicia Mendy’s Beutset (Senegal) and Tayib Tolba’s Le Père, Probablement (Mauritania), among others.
The 2025 FESPACO edition also introduces for the first time initiatives such as Critics’ Week and a Public Prize, with Chad designated the country of honor. You can check the full official selection list here.