Cinema

Locarno Film Festival, the popular auteur-driven venue, is showing old and new projects by African filmmakers.

Among the 28 Sundance documentary grantees are an “Untitled Africa Project” and a project following “LGBTQ+ Yoruba practitioners”.

K’naan and Afolabi Olalekan will join Oscar winners Christopher Nolan and Barry Jenkins as filmmakers selected by TIFF’s Discovery section.

Projects from the directors were chosen from 195 submissions across 55 countries.

This Nigerian experiment at telling a time-travel tale is a misfire.

With ornate schemes and smart, sometimes unclear, plot twists, Niyi Akinmolayan makes a film that lives up to its name.

A lack of finesse (and finance) hinders the ambition of Tade Ogidan’s “Prison Break” movie.

The show utilizes negative tropes of reality TV as a vehicle to drive its subplots, while making perfunctory gestures towards genuine vulnerability.

Biodun Stephen’s Breaded Life attempts to combine the intimacy of humanity with realism, and pulls it off.