Festivals

The next edition of FESPACO comes up in 2025. Here are a few things to know about one of Africa’s most important film events.

Films from Kenya’s Angela Wanjiku Wamai and South Africa’s Jenna Cato Bass are among projects heading for the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market.

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

Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme is now open to Africa and its filmmakers.

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.

Anglela Wanjiku Wamai’s Enkop (The Soil) is the sole project from an African filmmaker on the Dutch grant’s list of 12.

The Nigeria filmmaker has had a festival premiere for his latest, a follow-up to the award-winning Daughters of Chibok.

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.

The two Nigerian films to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival will appear at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.