Cinema

The 2025 AMVCA nominations had nominees to cheer for, some to wonder about, and one to leave you torn between cheer and despair.

The Durban FilmMart has announced its 16th event, taking place from 18-21 July 2025 in Durban, South Africa, with the theme ‘Bridges Not Borders’.

Rwandan director writes about his country’s growing film industry and what it needs to get even better.

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.