Cinema

First and foremost: FESPACO cannot remain an exclusively French-speaking festival. It simply cannot be that in 2025 and in the future.

Kenya’s Wangeci Mūrage joins the new advisory board of Sunny Side of the Doc, an international documentary marketplace based in France.

South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has appointed Vincent Blennies as new CEO.

Ahead of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Oris Aigbokhaevbolo offers a few lessons for African cinema based on observations from the last edition.

With “A Ghetto Love Story”, producer Basketmouth and director Daniel Oriahi have made a superb Nollywood film about Nigerian love and poverty.

The identity of the killer in Mercy Aigbe’s second production is too obvious for the film to be a decent whodunit.

A recognised by international festivals these are the most acclaimed movies of the past year.

These 6 films are the best projects from Nollywood for the year 2024.

Orwa Nyrabia, outgoing artistic director at IDFA, speaks about African documentaries at the festival and on the Israel/Palestine controversy.

These four directors made some of the most ambitious and unpredictably enjoyable films of the year in Nollywood.