Cinema

Four short commentaries on African documentary filmmaking as gathered from IDFA, the prestigious documentary festival in the Netherlands.

Gladiator II ticket sales in Nigeria were propelled by a strong opening weekend showing.

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl and Hanami, by African filmmakers based in the west, will be screened at the Surreal 16 Film Festival in Nigeria.

Saworoide, Tunde Kelani 1999 picture, has a few things to say about Nigeria 25 years later.

Sudan’s Omar Sy and Mozambique’s Yara Costa were triumphant at IDFA’s 2024 Forum Awards.

The Berlinale Spotlight programme brought a selection of acclaimed films to Accra.

Ifeoma N Chukwuogo’s Phoenix Fury won two of the 2024 AFRIFF’s biggest awards: Best Director and Best Film.

The AFRIFF party can be hard to get into, even for filmmakers. And that’s the point. Kind of.

A Night in Nollywood gets its performances right but it still succumbs to the usual Nollywood flaws. Efiko Score: 6.1/10.

Our reporter was at the 20th anniversary of the Africa Movie Academy Awards. He has produced a list of the AMAA 2024 highs and lows.